Towards a contingency theory of collaborative planning initiatives in supply networks

Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning Networks

Most manufacturing companies face strong competition and continuowus changes in market and customer requirements. Planning are frequently affected by the actions of suppliers and customers in their supply networks such as changes to orders that are already in production or re-planning caused by lack of materials or resources. Often, decisions have to be made without having a complete, real time...

Achieving Flexibility via Contingency Planning Activities in the Supply Chain

Supply chain disruptions significantly impact businesses worldwide. Many organizations work towards improving flexibility so as to prepare for such disruptions and maintain competitive advantage. This research effort examines four activities that are associated with the contingency planning process to determine which, if any, of these processes are ultimately supportive of organizational flexib...

Legal aspects of supply chain continuity and contingency planning.

Communicative planning theory and community initiatives

Towards a Transparent Deliberation Protocol Inspired from Supply Chain Collaborative Planning

In this paper we propose a new deliberation process based on argumentation and bipolar decision making in a context of agreed common knowledge and priorities together with private preferences. This work is inspired from the supply chain management domain and more precisely by the “Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment” model which aims at selecting a procurement plan in collabor...