Table Of ContentSUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT -
APPLICATIONS
AND SIMULATIONS
Edited by Mamun Habib
Supply Chain Management - Applications and Simulations
Edited by Mamun Habib
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Contents
Preface IX
Part 1 Supply Chain Management: Theory and Evolution 1
Chapter 1 Supply Chain Management (SCM): Theory and Evolution 3
Mamun Habib
Part 2 Strategic and Tactical Issues
in Supply Chain Management 15
Chapter 2 Supply Chain Management
Systems Advanced Control: MPC on SCM 17
Mohammad Miranbeigi and Aliakbar Jalali
Chapter 3 Supply Chain Control: A Perspective from Design for
Reliability and Manufacturability Utilizing Simulations 35
Yan Liu and Scott Hareland
Chapter 4 Supply Chain Event Management System 59
Bearzotti Lorena, Fernandez Erica,
Guarnaschelli Armando, Salomone Enrique and Chiotti Omar
Chapter 5 Power Optimization of Energy Service Companies (ESCOs)
in Peak Demand Period Based on Supply Chain Network 83
Aurobi Das and V. Balakrishnan
Chapter 6 The Value of Supply Chain Finance 111
Xiangfeng Chen and Chenxi Hu
Part 3 Project and Technology Issues in Supply Chain 133
Chapter 7 Impact of RFID and EPCglobal on
Critical Processes of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain 135
Alberto Bucciero, Anna Lisa Guido,
Luca Mainetti and Luigi Patrono
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Chapter 8 Business and Environment Performance Evaluation
in Supply Chains: A Formal Model-Driven Approach 157
Gabriel Alves Jr., Paulo Maciel, Ricardo Lima and Fábio Magnani
Chapter 9 Analysis of a Supply Chain in
Electrical and Electronic Industry 183
Roberto Ferrauto
Chapter 10 Research on Measurement and
Evolutionary Mechanisms of Supply Chain Flexibility 203
Li Quanxi, Qi Yibing and Zhao Wanchen
Part 4 Risk Managements in Supply Chain 229
Chapter 11 A Feedback Model of Control Chart
for Supplier Risk Management 231
Jing Sun and Masayuki Matsui
Chapter 12 Supply Chain Modeling
Based on Restructuring Activities 239
Lucian Hancu
Preface
Supply Chain Management (SCM) has been widely researched in numerous
application domains during the last decade. Despite the popularity of SCM research
and applications, considerable confusion remains as to its meaning. There are several
attempts made by researchers and practitioners to appropriately define SCM. Amidst
fierce competition in all industries, SCM has gradually been embraced as a proven
managerial approach to achieving sustainable profits and growth.
This book “Supply Chain Management - Applications and Simulations” is
comprised of twelve chapters and has been divided into four sections, namely Supply
Chain Management: Theory and Evolution, Strategic and Tactical Issues in Supply
Chain Management, Project and Technology Issues in Supply Chain, and Risk
Managements in Supply Chain.
Section I contains the introductory chapter that represents theory and evolution of
Supply Chain Management. This chapter highlights chronological prospective of SCM
in terms of time frame in different areas of manufacturing and service industries.
Section II comprised five chapters that are related to strategic and tactical issues in
Supply Chain Management.
In chapter two, local consecutive Model Predictive Controllers (MPC) applied to a
supply chain management system that consists of four echelons is presented. Two
types of sequential decentralized MPC were used: in first method, each node
completely by a decentralized model predictive controller optimized for its own
policy, and in second method, decentralized model predictive controllers in each stage
are updated in each time period.
A methodology is outlined in chapter 3 that utilizes electrical simulations to account
for component variability and its predicted impact on yield and quality. Identified
critical features in simulations from a design for reliability and manufacturability
perspective are used to drive supply chain decisions to build robust designs in an
efficient way.
A proposal to systematically address the problem of disruptive event management in
SC is described in chapter 4. The proposal includes the definition of a SCEM (Supply
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Chain Event Management) system architecture conceived to provide system support
for companies willing to engage in collaboration agreements for controlling the
execution of their supply processes.
Chapter 5 focuses on the integration of renewable energy, specifically the solar energy
resources into conventional electric grid and deployment of smart architecture of
hybrid energy system in the context of Green House Effect to Climate Change with the
deployment of energy conservation efforts by Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) in
Indian context for sustainable development of the rural and urban sector. This chapter
illustrates the deployment of Energy Portal (EP) for Renewable Energy Resources
based on Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) technology.
Chapter 6 reveals the relation between financing services and supply chain
management, and introduces how logistics firms could add value to all parties in
supply chain. This chapter sheds some light on how Supply Chain Finance (SCF)
impacts agents’ operational and financial decisions under the symmetric/asymmetric
information and how SCF can create value for supply chain with capital constraints.
In this chapter, SCF as the jointly operations/logistics and financing service, offered by
a 3PL firm (Control Role), or an alliance of 3PL firm (Delegation Role) and financial
institution (i.e., bank), etc. was defined.
Section III encompasses four chapters that are relevant to project and technology
issues in Supply Chain.
Chapter 7 analyses main processes of the pharmaceutical supply chain and evaluates
the impact of the combined use of the innovative technologies, such as RFID and
EPCglobal, in some critical processes. Particular attention is focused on the wholesaler
because it represents a middle point of the supply chain, very stressed in terms of
constraints and products flow.
Chapter 8 presents a modeling framework for quantitative evaluation of green supply
chains (GrSCs). This chapter begins presenting a literature review of the works that
address the quantitative evaluation of supply chains. After presenting a brief
introduction of sustainability and supply chains, it discusses some of the performance
models that are often adopted when conducting a quantitative evaluation of different
kinds of systems. This chapter presented a framework based on the stochastic
modeling of supply chains for evaluating business and sustainability metrics.
Chapter 9 aims to provide a block analysis technique for complex electronic systems.
This technique is based on the partitioning of the chain in several functional blocks
and allows an identification of the block responsible for any specification violation and
hence a more easy and quick solution of the problem. This chapter describes a
systematic approach for the analysis of the signal integrity of a supply voltage pulse
propagating from the input to the output port of a complex supply chain of devices for
spatial and military applications.
