Supply oriented integration

The study provides valuable insights for research and industrial practice. At the beginning, the author reviews different management concepts in the value chain either demand, supply or value-oriented. The author proposes an integrated framework for value chain management as an interdisciplinary structure consisting of separated concepts. 

Commodity-oriented models focus more on the market interfaces in sales and procurement and consider less complexity in the supply chain determining volumes and values in the value chain integration with production planning and chemical-specifics often not modeled... 

Figure 2.11 presents the concept of an open integrated system. The simulation environment could come from the Vendor A, to which in-house unit operations can be coupled. One of the user-model unit calls the library of the vendor B, which is linked to a thermo-server supplied by the vendor C, who in turn could consider an equation-of-state model from the supplier D. The vendor E might supply a special solver, while the database with information about physical properties could come from the vendor F, etc. It is clear that the PMC s should be provided with compatible plug-and-play interfaces. This can be done nowadays at best with an object-oriented technology. 

Supply integration Highly interdisciplinary, evolving from process-oriented cost reduction efforts Complete supply chain view, platform for competitive initiatives 3... 

The management of such a complex organization can be brought to the integration of its business processes. Process-oriented management vs. function-oriented management is an important feature that makes the supply chain a distinct enterprise system class. Another facet of supply chain system complexity is its... 

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