Configuring a Supply Chain to Reduce the Cost of Demand Uncertainty

Fisher, Marshall L.; Hammond, Janice H.; Obermeyer, Walter; Raman, Ananth

doi:10.1111/j.1937-5956.1997.tb00427.x

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“…(Fisher, 1997;Barratt and Oliveira, 2001;Sari, 2008). Given the increasing complexities of supply chains, and given the increasing sophistication in information technology and the use of the internet, a new supply chain management tool has emerged in the last few years for supply chain collaboration.…”

Section: Supply Chain Collaborationmentioning

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The role of collaboration in the UK green supply chains: an exploratory study of the perspectives of suppliers, logistics and retailers

Ramanathan

Bentley

Pang

2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Role of collaboration in green supply chains in the UK: An exploratory study on suppliers, logistics and retailers perspectivesMany companies around the world have started to realise that working alone will not be sufficient in their move towards a greener supply chain (SC). More specifically, recent UK government regulations on implementing strict CO2 reduction encourage SC operators to work collaboratively, in production and logistics or other operations, to achieve their green objectives. In this research, we look at some underlying factors of SC collaboration, focussing on suppliers, logistics and retailers, for the purpose of improving the environmental sustainability of companies' SCs. To facilitate our study, we conduct case studies in two overseas supplier companies with the aim of providing a better understanding of how green issues imposed by European and UK customers influence the companies' actions to meet agreed environmental goals. Based on the initial analysis of the case studies, we develop a conceptual framework which indicates that SC collaboration plays an important role in ensuring companies achieve environmental sustainability of their SCs. Subsequently, staff in middle-management and related roles in sixteen companies operating in the UK are interviewed. This allows us to understand their business practices in terms of SC collaboration with their suppliers and buyers to achieve the goal of CO2 reduction. Finally, drawing upon the information from company reports and websites, a number of UK leading retailers' actions to reduce CO2 emissions are investigated. We develop a conceptual framework of SC collaboration for environmental sustainability to help companies improve their level of collaboration between suppliers and buyers in terms of meeting their environmental objectives. The proposed framework will serve as a base model for the companies using or considering SC collaboration to achieve their environmental agendas, in line with governmental green regulatory requirements.

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Section: Supply Chain Collaborationmentioning

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The role of collaboration in the UK green supply chains: an exploratory study of the perspectives of suppliers, logistics and retailers

Ramanathan

Bentley

Pang

2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

128

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“…Designing to achieve SC objectives induces SCR, particularly when firms work to implement key SC objectives such as adaptability, agility, and alignment (Lee, 2004), responsiveness (Fisher et al, 1997), flexibility (Vickery et al, 1999), innovation (PWC and MIT Forum, 2013), security (Forum, 2010), resilience (Bhatia et al, 2013), and life cycle cost (Burns and Nicholls, 2013), to mention a few. A particularly challenging area of SCD is humanitarian SCs, where SC objectives and SCR issues are very complex (Starr, 2014).…”

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An extended framework for supply chain risk management: incorporating the complexities of emerging industries and large-scale systems

Burns

2017

IJMTM

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Over the last two decades, firms, governmental agencies, and non-governmental organisations have sought improved understanding of supply chain management and supply chain risk. Much supply chain risk research has been in large and mature industries such as automotive, aerospace, and energy production. Yet, additional supply chain risk areas are of concern to executives, including emerging industries, emerging supply chains, governmental agencies, quasi-governmental agencies, non-governmental agencies, and large-scale systems engineering projects that cope with complex technical challenges and multi-year development cycles. Through involvement with commercial and governmental research partners, we developed an extended and more generalised framework of supply chain risk that categorises dimensions of SCR and highlights the complexity that must be addressed by organisations. Key findings include that academics must address the complexity that firms face rather than assume simpler risk models, and that firms need additional academic thought leadership for developing improved approaches to manage supply chain risk.

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“…1). This phenomenon has been recognized as the bullwhip effect [1] and it has been observed in many industries [1][2][3][4]. Forrester [5] was mostly the first to study this problem using system dynamics and called it demand variability amplification.…”

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Inventory Control System Based on Control Charts to Improve Supply Chain Performances

Costantino¹,

Gravio²,

Shaban³

et al. 2014

Int. j. simul. model.

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Inventory replenishment rules have been recognized as a major cause of the bullwhip effect and inventory instability in multi-echelon supply chains. There is a trade-off between bullwhip effect and inventory stability where mitigating the bullwhip effect through order smoothing might increase inventory instability. Therefore, there is a substantial need for inventory control policies that can cope with supply chains dynamics. This paper attempts to formulate an inventory control system based on a statistical control chart approach to handle the trade-off between order variability amplification and inventory stability. The proposed replenishment system, namely IR-SPC, incorporates individual control charts to control both the inventory position and the placed orders. A simulation study has been conducted to evaluate and compare the IR-SPC with a generalized order-up-to that has order smoothing mechanism. The comparisons showed that the IR-SPC outperforms both the smoothing order-up-to policy and the Min-Max inventory policy in terms of bullwhip effect and inventory performances.

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Configuring a Supply Chain to Reduce the Cost of Demand Uncertainty

Cited by 181 publications

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The role of collaboration in the UK green supply chains: an exploratory study of the perspectives of suppliers, logistics and retailers

The role of collaboration in the UK green supply chains: an exploratory study of the perspectives of suppliers, logistics and retailers

An extended framework for supply chain risk management: incorporating the complexities of emerging industries and large-scale systems

Inventory Control System Based on Control Charts to Improve Supply Chain Performances

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