Adaptive Supply Chain Management

Dmitry Ivanov, Boris Sokolov

Springer Science & Business Media, Nov 25, 2009 - Technology & Engineering - 269 pages

The recent transformation of the world’s economic environment necessitates the re-thinking of supply chain management (SCM) goals and decision-making techniques. Adaptive Supply Chain Management develops new viewpoints on the SCM goal paradigm, problem semantics, and decision-making support.

Drawing upon years of research and practical experience, and using numerous examples, the authors unite conceptual considerations of supply chains with a constructive level of engineering and solutions to real-world problems. Adaptive Supply Chain Management provides advanced insights into dynamics, complexity, and uncertainty in supply chains from the perspectives of systems analysis, control theory, and operations research. It also considers supply chain adaptability, stability, and crisis-resistance. Particular highlights include:

• an understanding of supply chain performance as a composition of profitability and global stability;

• the tackling of links between partial SCM problems with regard to different management levels, different supply chain structures, and in supply chain dynamics;

• a mathematical approach based on the combined application of control theory, systems analysis, operations research, and agent-oriented modelling; and

• supply chains modelled as dynamic multi-structural active systems.

Providing readers with a comprehensive view of advanced SCM concepts, constructive mathematical techniques and models, Adaptive Supply Chain Management is an invaluable text for practitioners and researchers who specialize in SCM and operations.

Contents

• Challenges in Research on Modern and Future Supply Chains 57: 56
• Uncertainty Risk and Complexity: 69
• Handling Uncertainty in Supply Chains: 81
• Stabilitybased Realization of Economic Performance: 92
• 7 6 General Algorithms of Supply Chain Replanning Under Uncertainty 110 7 6 1 General Algorithm of Supply Chain Planning 110 7 6 2 General ...: 127
• Conceptual and Mathematical Issues 153 10 2 Basics of Structure Dynamics Control 155 10 3 Multimodel Description of Supply Chain Control Proc...: 164
• Adaptive Planning of Supply Chains: 173
• Modelling Operations Dynamics Planning and Scheduling: 185
• Supply Chain Reconfiguration and Models Adaptation 205: 204
• Models of Supply Chain Global Stability and Manageability: 219
• Index: 266

About the author

Dr Dmitry Ivanov has a PhD in Economics and Business Administration with a major in Supply Chain Management, Production Engineering, Operations Management, and is currently Chair of Production Management and Industrial Organization at the Chemnitz University of Technology. Dr Ivanov is also President of the German-Russain Logistics Society (DR-LOG) and a member of Russia's Presidium of National Supply Chain Council.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Sokolov works for the Saint Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation at the Russian Academy of Science.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Adaptive Supply Chain Management
• Authors: Dmitry Ivanov, Boris Sokolov
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media, 2009
• ISBN: 1848829523, 9781848829527
• Length: 269 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Management; Business & Economics / Production & Operations Management; Technology & Engineering / Industrial Engineering; Technology & Engineering / Manufacturing; Technology & Engineering / Quality Control