Emergent Effects from Simple Mechanisms in Supply Chain Models

Self-assembly for supply chains

“…The HHI is an economic concept that takes into account the size distribution of firms within a 17 Configuration as in the arrangement of components that give the whole its form. In Yee, Ong & Tan (2015), the focus was on the power structure, or influence relationships, between firms where its' influence relates to the market share and power that it would hold. 18 In Yee, Ong & Tan (2015), the firms interact whenever they engage in trading activities with each other.…”

“…In Yee, Ong & Tan (2015), the focus was on the power structure, or influence relationships, between firms where its' influence relates to the market share and power that it would hold. 18 In Yee, Ong & Tan (2015), the firms interact whenever they engage in trading activities with each other. 19 Dissipation can be understood to be a process in which energy is transformed from some initial form to another form.…”

“…The prominent characteristic of Biological Self-assembly is the variety and complexity of the functions that can be produced (Whitesides & Grzybowski, 2002). This variety and complexity is made possible because in Biological Self-assembly, especially in living cells, total control of the parameters that determine the behaviour of the environment, components, and interactions between them is a luxury that is difficult, if not impossible, 13 The work in this chapter has been published in Yee, Ong & Tan (2015…”

“…As a development towards a Self-assembly methodology for supply chains, an attempt was made to mimic self-assembly behaviours in a supply chain. This is accomplished in the work of Yee, Ong & Tan (2015), where it was demonstrated that order, in the form of the supply chain taking on a certain power structure, can be induced from disorganized components at the micro level 16 . In the context of Complexity Theory, which the work was written for, the order that emerged was a result of self-organization, or dynamic self-assembly as recognised by Whitesides & Grzybowski (Whitesides & Grzybowski, 2002).…”

“…From these results, it can be observed that with increasing values of , the length of time needed for the structure of high-power concentration to emerge is shorter 21 . FromYee, Ong & Tan (2015) The effect of varying values of ∆ on the HHI for each tier. For all cases, all nodes have perfect visibility of their upstream supplier nodes and the following parameters = 5 and ∆ = 1 are applied.…”