Supply Chain Management (SCM) plans and controls the production over a group of autonomous enterprises. Process-oriented design is used to eliminate inefficiencies of the chain on a strategic level. This Virtual Enterprise (VE) must also manage and optimize the collaborative production on a tactical and operative level. Production planning, scheduling, and control are thus important functions f...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a complex process which includes a number of activities such as: negotiating with suppliers for raw materials, competing for customer orders, managing inventory, scheduling production, and delivering goods to customers. The activities are interconnected and interdependent; it is not obvious which strategies to follow in each part of the supply chain in order to ...

This paper evaluates the role of configurator software in agile supply chains that are characterized by a relatively high degree of uncertainty both in the market and in production processes. Product configuration software is successfully used to manage demand uncertainty. The objective of this research is to assess the feasibility of configuration software to manage also supply uncertainty and...

With the introduction of the On Demand Operating Environment (ODOE), traditional capacity planning methodologies are being replaced by just in time resource allocation. This paper examines the application of supply chain mechanisms to dynamically coordinate the available compute capacity/resources with the service capacity/resources requirements. After reaching the ideal condition with a comple...

Supply chain optimisation is now a major research theme in process operations and management. A great deal of research has been undertaken on facility location and design, inventory and distribution planning, capacity and production planning and detailed scheduling. Only a small proportion of this work directly addresses the issues faced in the pharmaceutical sector. On the other hand, this sec...

Abstract To meet the demand of energy supply and balance in park avoid problem waste or insufficient process supply, design research coordinated operation optimization method multi-energy complementary integrated intelligent are carried out. According to park’s function mode cooling heating load requirements, optimal configuration electrical photovoltaic access scheme is The calculation a prere...

Although the supply chain management literature is extensive, the benefits and challenges of coordinated decision making within supply chain scheduling models have not been studied. We consider a variety of scheduling, batching and delivery problems that arise in an arborescent supply chain where a supplier makes deliveries to several manufacturers, who also make deliveries to customers. The ob...

Integrated e-supply chains are distributed manufacturing systems composed of various resources belonging to different companies and integrated with streamlined material, information and financial flow. The configuration of the supply chain network is essential for business to pursue a competitive advantage and to meet the market demand. This paper proposes a three-level hierarchical methodology...