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This article investigates the robustness of different tactical planning and control policies for a softwood supply chain using an agent-based environment that simulates a distributed advanced planning and scheduling system and its corresponding supply chain operations. Simulations were modelled using a novel agent-based methodology combined with a robust experimental design approach and an industrial data set obtained from two companies in Eastern Canada. Experimental results provide insi...

Transportation is an important part of the Canadian furniture industry supply chain. Even though there are often several manufacturers shipping in the same market region, coordination between two or more manufacturers is rare. Recently, important potential cost savings and delivery time reduction have been identified through transportation collaboration. In this paper we propose and test on a case study involving four furniture companies, a logistics scenario that allows transportation collab...

This Pan-Canadian report describes patient and physician perspectives regarding current performance of primary care in each province based on data collected as part of the Quality and Costs of Primary Care (QUALICOPC) study. The QUALICOPC study is an international study of quality and costs of primary care in 34 countries. This report describes results from the data collected in Canada. It includes only data collected from patients and physicians in primary care practices that provide co...