Download or read book Guidelines for Developing Flexible Supply Chains in a Stochastic Environment written by Seratun Jannat and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To effectively analyze and design a flexible supply chain (FSC), a variety of variables need to be considered. This research presents a framework, an extension of the work of Chan et al. (2009) that identifies a more extensive yet salient set of variables for designing FSCs. This framework provides a basis for using simulation to better understand, and to better design, FSCs. The framework is used to develop a conceptual model that provides a basis for simulation analysis. The conceptual model represents a general flexible supply chain in terms of key design and system variables and incorporates many elements from the framework. The conceptual model is translated to a programmed simulation model for experimentation, built in FlexSim, that incorporates many variables from the framework. Variability plays an important role in understanding the behavior of FSCs and in developing and analyzing simulations models of FSCs. Two key supply-chain performance measures are lead time and variability in lead time. One way that has been proposed to improve both measures is to increase supplier flexibility. Through simulation this research provides a means to assess the effects of various manufacturing and logistics flexibility-related variables on lead time and its variability. This research includes several experiments that analyze the effect of supplier flexibility level, proportion of process time that is production and transportation time, and the level of variability in process time on lead time. The triangular distribution is used often in simulation when process data are not available. Thus, the triangular distribution is used in the FSC simulation model. As part of this research, a means was developed to effectively consider alternative values of the parameters of the triangular distribution during experimentation. The method enables specification and control of both moment and location parameters.

Download or read book Demand Flexibility in Supply Chain Planning written by Joseph Geunes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work encapsulates the essential developments in this field into a single resource, as well as to set an agenda for further development in the field. This brief focuses on the demand flexibility in supply chains with fragmented results distributed throughout the literature. These results have strong implications for managing real-world complex operations planning problems. This book exploits dimensions of demand flexibility in supply chains and characterizes the best fit between demand properties and operations capabilities and constraints. The origins and seminal works are traced in integrated demand and operations planning and an in-depth documentation is provided for the current state of the art. Systems with inherent costs and constraints that must respond to some set of demands at a minimum cost are examined. Crucial unanswered questions are explored and the high-value research directions are highlighted for both practice and for the development of new and interesting optimization models and algorithms.

Download or read book Sustainable Supply Chain Management written by Balkan Cetinkaya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the need to develop sustainable supply chains - economically, environmentally and socially. This book is not about a wish list of impractical choices, but the reality of decisions faced by all those involved in supply chain management today. Our definition of sustainable supply chains is not restricted to so-called "green" supply chains, but recognises that in order to be truly sustainable, supply chains must operate within a realistic financial structure, as well as contribute value to our society. Supply chains are not sustainable unless they are realistically funded and valued. Thus, a real definition of sustainable supply chain management must take account of all relevant economic, social and environmental issues. This book contains examples from a wide range of real-life case studies, and synthesizes the learnings from these many different situations to provide the fundamental building blocks at the centre of successful logistics and supply chain management.

Download or read book The Structure of Global Supply Chains written by Panos Kouvelis and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global supply chain management is a core business process of the utmost strategic importance that all global firms have to manage. The Structure of Global Supply Chains provides a better understanding for the development of the right "footprint" of a global firm in its effort to supply its markets in environments of fast paced competition and tremendous uncertainty. The authors focus on the structure of global supply chains and the detailed choices involving the network of facilities at all stages of the supply chain in order to successfully execute the global business strategy. The main purpose of The Structure of Global Supply Chains is to go beyond an elementary exposition of global supply chain network design issues using the latest research to identify the multiplicity of factors that contribute to designing these networks for competitive advantage of the global firm, while at the same time exposing both the successful features and the challenges faced by decision support systems developed to address such decisions. The emphasis is on presenting approaches built on operations and supply chain modeling research and support tools based on academic and industrial research of the last two decades. The Structure of Global Supply Chains provides the reader with comprehensive answers to how should a global firm configure its network of facilities and what dynamic approaches to use to effectively reconfigure it in an effort to meet demand in global markets in a profit maximizing way of sustainable profitability and competitive advantage.

Download or read book Supply Chain Design written by Brian Thomas Tomlin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing recognition is being placed, both in industry and in academia, on effective supply chain management. The term supply chain management presupposes that there exists a supply chain to be managed. With a focus on supply chains in which demand uncertainty is the key challenge, this dissertation develops strategies and models to aid in the design of certain supply chain features, namely capacity, flexibility and wholesale price schedules. Firstly, this dissertation studies capacity investments in single-product supply chains in which the participants make investments to maximize their individual expected profits. Using a stylized game theoretic model of a supply chain comprising a supplier and a manufacturer, simple non-linear wholesale price schedules, whether they be quantity premium or quantity discount schedules, are shown to outperform simple linear schedules in terms of the total supply chain profit achieved. While the model is stylized, it provides insight into how actual wholesale price schedules can be structured to induce near optimal supply chain capacity investments. Next, this dissertation then extends the work of Jordan and Graves (1995) so as to develop process flexibility strategies for multiple-product multiple-stage supply chains. The ability of multiple-stage supply chains to fill product demands is shown to be affected by two inefficiencies, termed stage-spanning bottlenecks and floating bottlenecks, that do not affect single-stage supply chains. Flexibility configurations differ in the protection they provide against these inefficiencies. The chaining strategy of Jordan and Graves (1995), with augmentation if either the number of stages or number of products is large, is shown to provide a high degree of protection and therefore to enable multiple-stage supply chains to better meet demand. Finally, this dissertation studies the capacity decision in multiple-product multiplestage supply chains. Solution approaches to the capacity investment problem in which there is either an expected shortfall bound or a service level bound are developed. The service level problem, while widely studied in inventory theory, has not been studied in the multiple-product multiple-stage supply chain capacity literature to date. In addition to developing solution approaches, insights into the optimal capacity decisions in multiple-product multiple-stage supply chains are provided.

Download or read book Supply Chain Reconfiguration and Inventory Integration in a Stochastic Environment written by Hany Osman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emerging Applications in Supply Chains for Sustainable Business Development written by Kumar, M. Vijaya and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The application of sustainability practices at the system level begins with the supply chain. In the business realm, incorporating such practices allows organizations to redesign their operations more effectively. Emerging Applications in Supply Chains for Sustainable Business Development is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the models, strategies, and analyses that are essential for developing and managing a sustainable supply chain. While highlighting topics such as agile manufacturing and the world food crisis, this publication is ideally designed for business managers, academicians, business practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students seeking current research on sustainable supply chain management.

Download or read book Handbook of Bioenergy written by Sandra D. Eksioglu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings together recent advances in the areas of supply chain optimization, supply chain management, and life-cycle cost analysis of bioenergy. These topics are important for the development and long-term sustainability of the bioenergy industry. The increasing interest in bioenergy has been motivated by its potential to become a key future energy source. The opportunities and challenges that this industry has been facing have been the motivation for a number of optimization-related works on bioenergy. Practitioners and academicians agree that the two major barriers of further investments in this industry are biomass supply uncertainty and costs. The goal of this handbook is to present several cutting-edge developments and tools to help the industry overcome these supply chain and economic challenges. Case studies highlighting the problems faced by investors in the US and Europe illustrate the impact of certain tools in making bioenergy an economically viable energy option.

Download or read book Sustainable Procurement in Supply Chain Operations written by Sachin K. Mangla and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Procurement is an emerging concept in supply chain and operations management. Manufacturing industries have made improvements in moving from cost-based to quality-based, and customer-focused supply chain management strategies. This is becoming an integrated component in the supply chain system, with players becoming aware of the regulations and needs of the customer. It is imperative for production firms to look at the procurement activity as one of the strategic enablers for sustaining the business in the competitive global environment. This book will provide industries with an understanding of the concepts related to sustainable procurement policies and its implementation. Provides decision and theory development models in sustainable procurement supply chains Includes contributions in all three major analytics: descriptive, predictive, and perspectives in the context of sustainable procurement supply chain Discusses new business models with suppliers and opportunities for co-branding Covers how to develop new tools to measure and allocate the gains from sustainable practices among stakeholders Analyses the science of translating data into meaningful and actionable insights

Download or read book Stochastic Supply Chain Planning a Complete Guide written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What situation(s) led to this Stochastic Supply Chain Planning Self Assessment? What potential environmental factors impact the Stochastic Supply Chain Planning effort? How do we accomplish our long range Stochastic Supply Chain Planning goals? In what ways are Stochastic Supply Chain Planning vendors and us interacting to ensure safe and effective use? How likely is the current Stochastic Supply Chain Planning plan to come in on schedule or on budget? This easy Stochastic Supply Chain Planning self-assessment will make you the principal Stochastic Supply Chain Planning domain standout by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Stochastic Supply Chain Planning challenge. How do I reduce the effort in the Stochastic Supply Chain Planning work to be done to get problems solved? How can I ensure that plans of action include every Stochastic Supply Chain Planning task and that every Stochastic Supply Chain Planning outcome is in place? How will I save time investigating strategic and tactical options and ensuring Stochastic Supply Chain Planning costs are low? How can I deliver tailored Stochastic Supply Chain Planning advice instantly with structured going-forward plans? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed best-selling author Gerard Blokdyk. Blokdyk ensures all Stochastic Supply Chain Planning essentials are covered, from every angle: the Stochastic Supply Chain Planning self-assessment shows succinctly and clearly that what needs to be clarified to organize the required activities and processes so that Stochastic Supply Chain Planning outcomes are achieved. Contains extensive criteria grounded in past and current successful projects and activities by experienced Stochastic Supply Chain Planning practitioners. Their mastery, combined with the easy elegance of the self-assessment, provides its superior value to you in knowing how to ensure the outcome of any efforts in Stochastic Supply Chain Planning are maximized with professional results. Your purchase includes access details to the Stochastic Supply Chain Planning self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows you exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria: - The latest quick edition of the book in PDF - The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in... - The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and... - Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation ...plus an extra, special, resource that helps you with project managing. INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.

Download or read book Government Impact on Sustainable and Responsible Supply Chain Management written by Taghipour, Atour and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supply chain comprises different actors existing in different countries, including suppliers, producers, and customers. Clothes are supplied from Asia to all other regions; most coffee beans are supplied from South America; and cocoa is produced in Africa. Protecting the rights of people who produce goods in different countries is essential. In fact, according to this evolutionary law, companies need to identify, analyze, and prioritize the risks in their supply chains, and new policies must be established based on these results. New measures are taken to prevent or minimize violations of human rights and damage to the environment. Companies also need to set up grievance channels for people in the supply chains for regular reporting on supply chain practices. The German Supply Chain Act gives consumers the security that companies are managed based on fair production, and many similar legislations are likely to follow in other nations. Businesses around the world must prepare for these types of policies to impact their own supply chain management strategy before they are enforced if they wish to avoid revenue-impacting delays. Government Impact on Sustainable and Responsible Supply Chain Management is edited by Atour Taghipour, with about a decade of experience as a director in Automobile and High-Tech Industries, provides new and innovative ways to integrate social and environmental analysis into global value chains and adapt the law that regulates corporate responsibility for the observance of sustainability and human rights in the supply chain. This book is ideal for professionals and researchers working in governmental and private organizations in supply chain management, operations management, logistics, and operations research. Moreover, the book provides insights and support for executives in managing expertise, knowledge, information, and organizational development in different work communities and environments.

Download or read book The agile supply chain written by Remko Ivan Hoek and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the guest editor Remko I. van Hoek, in the field of logistics the debate between the 'lean' thinkers and those who advocate 'agility' is still very much alive. This special issue follows the International Conference on Agility in Helsinki, Finland, and is a collection of some of the best of the fifty papers presented there. The papers touch on agility in regards to forecasting, manufacturing, simulation, ERP and Chinese sourcing. The result is that the concept of agility can be considered as a practical path forward, rather than just a topic of academic debate.

Download or read book The Definitive Guide to Modern Supply Chain Management collection written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Organizing Sustainable Development written by Aneta Kuźniarska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a dynamic increase in interest in the subject, which results in numerous, in-depth scientific research and publications with an interdisciplinary dimension. This edited volume is a compendium of theoretical knowledge on sustainable development. The context analysed in the publication includes a multi-level and multi-aspect analysis starting from the historical and legal conditions, through elements of the macro level and the micro level, inside the organization. Organizing Sustainable Development offers a systematic and comprehensive theoretical analysis of sustainable development supplemented with practical examples, which will allow obtaining comprehensive knowledge about the meaning and its multi-context application in practice. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners in the fields of sustainable development, management studies, organizational studies and corporate social responsibility. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Funded by Uniwersytet Jagielloński.

Download or read book System Design and Management with Flexible Structures and Mechanisms written by Ye Xu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible system design has received increasingly more attention in the last a few decades. Flexibility can increase systems' ability to adjust against fast-changing environment, and thereby improves efficiency and reliability, and avoids huge cost from rare but severe disruptions, or loss due to congestions caused by system uncertainties. In this dissertation, we focus on the design and management of flexible systems. In particular, we study three types of flexibility: process flexibility, network flexibility, and payment flexibility. We present quantitative formulations for these problems, and develop different methodologies to solve them. We further conduct numerical studies to generate insights as guidelines for the design of flexible systems in practice. \\ Flexible supply chains have been widely used by companies to deal with uncertainties. It is well known that chaining structure is very efficient in balanced supply chains. However, it is not clear whether it will work well when supply chains are unbalanced. We study the flexibility design problem of a general supply chain with unbalanced and nonhomogeneous structure. Both demand uncertainty and disruptions are considered in our model. We derive exact solutions for several special cases of the uncapacitated problem where the number of links is fixed, propose an efficient algorithm for solving the general uncapacitated problem, and use simulations to derive some managerial insights for the capacitated problem.\\ A similar idea is applied to network design. Air transportation networks suffer a lot from disruptions caused by severe weather, natural disasters, power outage, etc. We propose a flexible hub-and-spoke structure in which airports are allowed to have up to $N$ hubs, and formulate the problem as a mixed-integer program that minimizes fixed cost, flexibility cost, and expected transportation cost and penalty cost. Benders decomposition algorithm is applied to solve this problem. Numerical studies show that the performance of the network can be improved substantially with flexible hub assignment, and a flexible structure with $N=2$ can achieve most of the benefit of those with greater $N$. We also demonstrate the impact of the correlation between airport disruptions and address the importance of considering it in stochastic air transportation models.\\ Trade credit, as a form of flexible payment, is a major tool used by small businesses to obtain external finance. It benefits the buyer and the supplier in multiple ways, and brings risk to them at the same time. We investigate the impact of trade credit on growing small businesses and their suppliers. By looking at a one-supplier-one-retailer supply chain, we study the expansion and inventory policies of the retailer when trade credit is extended or not. It is shown that the retailer grows faster and orders more with trade credit. It is also shown by numerical study that the effect of trade credit depends on demand correlation. When demand is positively correlated, trade credit makes the retailer more likely to go bankrupt, and thereby lowers the supplier's long-term profit and may even cause the failure of the supplier.

Download or read book Contract Analysis and Design for Supply Chains with Stochastic Demand written by Yingxue Zhao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to analysis and design of supply chain contracts with stochastic demand. Given the extensive utilization of contracts in supply chains, the issues concerning contract analysis and design are extremely important for supply chain management (SCM), and substantial research has been developed to address those issues over the past years. Despite the abundance of classical research, new research needs to be conducted in response to new issues emerging with the recent changing business environments, such as the fast-shortening life cycle of product and the increasing globalization of supply chains. This book addresses these issues, with the intention to present new research on how to apply contracts to improve SCM. Contract Analysis and Design for Supply Chains with Stochastic Demand contains eight chapters and each chapter is summarized as follows: Chapter 1 provides a comprehensive review of the classical development of supply chain contracts. Chapter 2 examines the effects of demand uncertainty on the applicability of buyback contracts. Chapter 3 conducts a mean-risk analysis for wholesale price contracts, taking into account contracting value risk and risk preferences. Chapter 4 studies the optimization of product service system by franchise fee contracts in the service-oriented manufacturing supply chain with demand information asymmetry. Chapter 5 develops a bidirectional option contract model and explores the optimal contracting decisions and supply chain coordination issue with the bidirectional option. Chapter 6 addresses supply chain options pricing issue and a value-based pricing scheme is developed for the supply chain options. With a cooperative game theory approach, Chapter 7 explores the issues concerning supply chain contract selection/implementation with the option contract under consideration. Chapter 8 concludes the book and suggests worthy directions for future research.

Download or read book Strategies for Environmentally Responsible Supply Chain and Production Management written by Ramakrishna, Yanamandra and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formidable challenge of harmonizing economic imperatives with ecological responsibility in supply chain operations only increases with added complexity. In an era where global commerce is interwoven with environmental concerns, Sustainable Supply Chain Management for Environmental Responsibility is the pivotal resource that addresses the pervasive challenge of implementing Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM). It navigates the intricate terrain of SSCM, offering an authoritative exploration of its key elements, drivers, and challenges. This book dissects the foundational principles of SSCM, revealing its relevance and significance in fostering environmental stewardship. Readers embark on a journey through the core elements of SSCM, from green procurement and sustainable production to optimizing logistics through technology-driven solutions. The narrative is grounded in academic rigor, enriched with case studies of companies that have triumphantly embraced SSCM, showcasing tangible benefits such as cost reduction, enhanced brand reputation, and heightened customer loyalty. This book is ideal for managers, academics, and students and unfolds environmental responsibility within the intricate fabric of supply chain operations.