Supply chain management dynamics

Angerhofer BJ, Angelides MC (2000) System Dynamics Modelling in Supply Chain Management Research Review, In Joines JA, Barton RR, Kang K, Fishwick PA (eds) Proceedings of the 2000 Winter Simulation Conference, pp 342-351... 

L. Puigjaner, J.M. Lainez, 2007, Capturing dynamics in integrated supply chain management, Comput. Chem. Eng., doi 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2007.10.003. 

The global marketplace is volatile, fragmented, and dynamic. Supply processes are more mature than demand. There is a larger gap to fill in the redefinition of demand processes to be market driven than in any other area of supply chain management. 

Ervolina, Tom and Brenda Dietrich (2001). Moving Toward Dynamic Available to Promise, in Saul I. Gass and Albert T. Jones, editors. Supply Chain Management Practice and Research Status and Future Directions, R. H. School of Business, University of Maryland, Manufacturing Engineering... 

As firms position themselves to stay competitive, they face the challenge of transforming their operations from a static to a dynamic business environment. An obvious choice for transformation is supply chain operations because of their potential impact on almost every aspect of the business encompassing the extended enterprise. This is a complex undertaking because supply chain management entails managing the following under the umbrella of a common framework ... 

The supply chain network describes the static structure of the supply chain while processes provide a dynamic representation of supply chain management activities. Supply chain management processes are cross-enterprise, cross-sectional, and selfsimilar. 

As to what constitutes the main barrier to supply chain management, the respondents most often indicated the wide scale of process outsourcing (31% of respondents). This may mean that outsourcing is not only related to the limited influence on the outsourced process and to the loss of control the company has over that process. Another significant barrier to supply chain proficiency is limited access to information. In the context of the indicated dynamic development of ICT... 

Let DP denote the set of desired products (or aggregated product families) of the system. These can be manufactured at plants, P, by utilising various resources, RS. The products are subsequently transported to and stored at warehouses, W. Products ftom warehouses are transported upon customer demand, either to distribution centres, D, or directly to retailers, R. Retailers receive time-varying orders from different customers for different products. Satisfaction of customer demand is the primary target in the supply chain management mechanism. Unsatisfied demand is recorded as back-orders for the next time period. A discrete time difference model is used to describe the supply chain network dynamics. The duration of the base time period depends on the dynamic characteristics of the network. 

A two-layered control strategy was described for supply chain management purposes. The strategy combines feedback controllers to account for the fast dynamics at the inventory nodes, while utilising the power of a fiilly-centralised optimisation-based model predictive controller to achieve an optimal operating policy for the supply chain network over a selected time horizon. 

Fawcett, S. E., Wallin, C., Allred, C., Fawcett, A., Magnan, G. M. (2011). Information technology as an enabler of supply chain collaboration A dynamic-capabilities perspective. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 47(1), 38-59. 

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