精敏供应链的综述及展望

系统回顾了供应链策略从精益、敏捷到精敏的发展历程;从降低供应链运作及管理的复杂度考虑,提出子供应链的概念并分析了精益与敏捷子供应链如何串、并行集成为精敏模式及相应的优势;最后展望了进一步的研究方向.     

集成AM、LP和MC策略的LAM供应链设计研究

供应链的集成研究对于提高供应链竞争力有非常大的意义,精益生产,敏捷制造,大规模定制造做为目前最先进的生产模式,他们单独与供应链集成各有优点和劣势,通过他们对比分析,提出了集成精益,敏捷和大规模定制3种策略的LAM供应链,并详细分析了LAM供应链集成方式,结构模型和实现途径.     

精益生产和敏捷制造在集成供应链 管理系统中的综合应用

在分析精益生产和敏捷制造这两种生产模式各自特点及其相互关系的基础上,研究了它们在集成供应链管理系统中的综合应用,指出敏捷制造适于处理供应链中动态变化的市场需求,而精益生产则提供了供应链优化运行所需的均衡生产调度并降低系统的运行成本。     

精益生产和敏捷制度造在集成供成链管理系统中的综合应用

在分析精益生产和敏捷制度这两种生产模式各自特点及其相互关系的基础上,研究了它们在集成供应链管理系统中的综合应用,指出敏捷制造适于处理供应链中动态变化的市场需求,而精益生产则提供了应链优化运行所需的均衡生产调度并降低系统的运行成本。     

基于服务产品的服务供应链设计

在结合服务供应链自身特性的基础上,提出了基于服务产品的服务供应链集成化设计过程.该过程主要包括服务供应链构建的需求分析、服务产品的设计、服务供应链类型的确定、服务供应链成员的选择与确定、服务供应链的形成与运行等5个方面.结果表明,服务供应链设计将更多地采用精益供应链和精益敏捷型供应链相结合的集成化设计方式.以天津宝运物流股份公司为例,介绍了该公司进行服务供应链设计的主要策略.     

敏捷供应链的敏捷性分析

根据"敏捷"思想发展状况及敏捷供应链的定义与内容,提出敏捷供应链的敏捷路线,从集成角度分析供应链敏捷性与集成的关系,在上述分析基础上给出增强供应链敏捷性的方法途径.     

精益思想视域下的供应链成员知识服务研究

基于精益思想的视角,采用文献分析方法,对供应链成员知识服务研究现状进行梳理,对成员知识服务存在的问题进行剖析。针对相应问题,将知识服务流程归纳为需求表征、知识集成、知识融合及显性化、知识服务反馈4个环节,并将精益思想融入供应链成员知识服务中,构建了成员知识服务的精益模型,设计了“宏观链-微观环”的组合方式,并提出了实施策略,即知识需求确定,知识流分析,知识产品价值拉动和服务过程优化。     

基于精益供应链的制造执行系统MES的研究

制造执行系统MES是以条形码技术、RFID等技术为核心的信息化综合解决方案,是构建与实施精益供应链管理的重要环节,可大大提高企业生产效率,实现企业供应链的赢利能力。基于精益供应链的MES系统包含从原材料采购到成品入库的生产过程进行实时数据采集、控制和监控的全过程,实现对生产控制、产品追踪追溯、实时数据传输与处理等功能。MES系统的开发采用模块化设计技术,包括系统架构设计、功能组件开发、信息采集等关键技术。     

精益生产供应链在中国本土化构建及运行分析

针对精益生产供应链的特征,通过对广州本田公司在华合资生产汽车过程中,供应链的组建与运行分析,指出了日本汽车企业在进入海外生产时,采取了整体移植的供应链组建策略,以及保持原有合作与协调机制的运行模式,并指出这种方式对于继承、发挥精益生产供应链竞争优势是具有重要作用的.     

基于敏捷供应链管理的生产计划信息结构特征分析

在分析了敏捷供应链特点的基础上概括了基于敏捷供应链管理的生产计划的特点,即信息集成、资源共享、动态响应和周期缩短等.系统地分析了制定生产计划时为保证其敏捷性,需要收集并处理的各种信息来源,按照信息周期与信息不确定性两维结构对这些信息进一步归类分析,探讨了其特征及信息集成的技术支撑环境.     

Leagile supply chain: design drivers and business performance implications

In the context of a dynamic and hypercompetitive business environment, effective supply chain design helps organisations to align resources for improved flow of products and services and satisfy customers’ diverse needs. Scholars have proposed several mutually exclusive supply chain designs such as efficient versus responsive, and lean versus agile. Quantitative testing has revealed that supply chain designs of many firms do not match with what was conceptually expected. To address this mismatch, in this study, a new approach to supply chain leagility is introduced and the impact of uncertainty as the key design driver of supply chains on leagility is investigated. The partial least squares (PLS) was employed to analyse data collected from 299 Australian firms by administering a structured questionnaire. Results indicate that higher performance is achievable on minimising the deviation from a balanced supply chain in which aspects of both leanness and agility are equally embedded. Further, the level of uncertainty directly and positively affects the Deviation from Leagility (DFL) index.     

供应链管理的敏捷性研究

面对顾客需求的不确定性及市场的易变性，企业必须站在供应链的高度来应对这种变化，同时供应链的敏捷性也是适应这种环境的必备特征。通过对供应链敏捷性概念、特征及敏捷战略研究，提出了提升供应链敏捷性的若干途径。     

Evaluation of agility in supply chains using multi-grade fuzzy approach

Modern business organisations recognise agility in supply chains to be a vital strategy for survival in a competitive scenario. The assessment of agility in supply chains is quite important as it is an indicator of strategic agile position. There exists a need for evaluating agility in supply chains for the case organisation. This study begins by developing a conceptual model for evaluation. This is followed by gathering single factor assessment vector and weights by experts. Then multi-grade fuzzy approach has been used for the evaluation of agility in the supply chain. The evaluation exercise indicated that the case organisation is agile; but still there exist chances for improving the agility level. Then the weaker areas have been identified and the improvement proposals have been implemented. The implementation result indicated that there is a significant improvement in the agility level of the case organisation.     

The performance impact of supply chain agility and supply chain adaptability: the moderating effect of product complexity

Even though research has suggested that supply chain agility and supply chain adaptability are distinct capabilities, little is known about their performance effects and about the contextual conditions under which they are effective. Based on a sample of 143 German firms, we empirically investigate the effects of supply chain agility and supply chain adaptability on cost performance and operational performance using hierarchical regression analysis. We ground our investigation in the dynamic capabilities view and contingency theory. We find that supply chain agility and supply chain adaptability positively affect both cost performance and operational performance. We further find evidence for a mediating role of supply chain agility in the links between supply chain adaptability and performance. Product complexity positively moderates the links between supply chain adaptability and cost performance, and supply chain adaptability and operational performance. The results contribute to the literature by offering a more nuanced understanding of the performance implications of supply chain agility and supply chain adaptability, thereby addressing the crucial question of why their benefits may or may not materialise under varying levels of product complexity.     

Dynamic supply chain design: a Delphi study of drivers and barriers

Supply chain management has both in academia and practice proven its important role to sustain and further develop companies’ competitive advantages. This is with initiatives that focus on cost-efficiencies and turnover improvement. During the last two decades, companies have faced complexity in their supply chains currently with increased global operations. The dynamic business environment forces companies to secure a competitive (re-) design of their supply chains. This paper seeks to advance the understanding on the drivers and barriers for such designs. In total, 39 experts (30 from industrial enterprises, 4 senior supply chain consultants and 5 supply chain management professors) have participated in a four-step Delphi study and have identified main drivers for dynamic supply chain design as being cost reduction, delivery reliability and change in demand for agility. The main barriers are identified as forecasting being too weak, supply chain complexity and product portfolio complexity. In addition, an explorative factor analysis has been carried out to identify how drivers and barriers can be grouped together. Finally, the paper compares the drivers and barriers underlining different competitive strategies.     

An adaptive framework for aligning (re)planning decisions on supply chain strategy,design, tactics,and operations

Over the last decade, a wealth of valuable approaches to supply chain strategic, tactical, and operational planning has been extensively developed. However, conventionally the planning decisions at each of these levels have been considered in isolation from the other levels. Moreover, decisions on supply chain strategy, design, tactics, and operations are interlinked and dispersed over different supply chain structures (functional, organisational, informational, financial, etc.). This study develops a framework to increase the efficiency, consistency, implacability, and sustainability of decisions on how to design, plan, and run supply chains. In this paper it is proposed that comprehensive planning as an adaptive process encapsulates the planning decisions to be interrelated at all the decision-making levels. A conceptual model is described interlinking the supply chain strategy, design, planning, and operations on adaptation principles. Subsequently, a mathematical modelling complex and its realisation in a software environment is presented. This study contributes to developing methodical basics and practical tools to transit from simple open time slots incremental planning to dynamic, feedback-based adaptive supply chain planning. The elaborated framework serves to increase the efficiency, consistency, implacability, and sustainability of decisions on supply chain strategy, design, tactics, and operations. Decisions alignment can help to increase the wealth of organisations by producing demand-corresponding products in the most cost-effective manner through increasing agility, responsiveness, reaction speed to market changes, and continuous comprehensive improvements/adaptation of supply chains.     

Supply chain focus dependent sensitivity of the point of product differentiation

Customer preferences for variety in the product(s) with improved customer service and lower prices are forcing the supply chains to overhaul the current practices from design to operational level. Postponement or delayed differentiation of the products is one such strategy, primarily deployed in mass customisation settings. Life cycles are shrinking not only for individual products but for product families as well. In this context, supply chain responsiveness becomes one of the crucial factors that need to be effectively managed to succeed in the present day competitive markets. Our model, that considers inventory costs and the supply chain responsiveness costs would aid a supply chain manager to make informed decisions with regard to the ideal location for the point of differentiation (POD), while striking the right balance between holding costs and the supply chain responsiveness costs. We also make use of a dimensionless parameter called the ‘coefficient of inverse responsiveness’ that not only facilitates the introduction of responsiveness related costs into the model but also improves the scalability and simplifies the analysis and interpretation of the results. Based on the strategic model developed, we offer some context-specific counter-intuitive managerial insights with respect to the sensitivity of the location of the POD in a supply chain.     

Agile supply chain strategy and supply chain performance: complementary roles of supply chain practices and information systems capability for agility

The paper examines the mediating effect of supply chain (SC) practices on the relationship between agile supply chain (ASC) strategy and SC performance. It further examines the moderating effect of information systems (IS) capability for agility on this mediated relationship. Using the theoretical lenses of complementarity and the information processing view of the supply chain, we hypothesise that strategic supplier partnership, customer relationship, postponement and lean practices, mediate the relationship between ASC strategy and SC performance. We further hypothesise that IS capability for agility moderates each of these mediated relationships. We empirically test the hypotheses using survey data from members of senior and executive management in the logistics/supply chain functions of 205 firms. The paper contributes to the literature on ASCs by theoretically explaining and empirically demonstrating how SC practices and IS capability for agility act together to effect a positive relationship between ASC strategy and supply chain performance.     

Blockchain adoption or contingent sourcing? Advancing food supply chain resilience in the post-pandemic era

In the post-pandemic era, food supply chains and firms therein are facing unprecedented severe challenges, because once infection is detected, numerous products must be recalled or abandoned, and both suppliers and retailers in the supply chain suffer enormous loss. To survive under the pandemic, retailers have adopted different sourcing strategies, such as contingent sourcing, which, in turn, affect the upstream suppliers and hence the resilience of the whole supply chain. With the rapid development of digital technologies, retailers nowadays can utilize blockchain as a reliable and efficient way to reduce product risk and hence advance the resilience of food supply chains by improving product traceability and inspection accuracy, and making sourcing transparent. In this paper, we develop a game-theoretic model to investigate the interrelation between the retailer’s decisions on blockchain adoption and sourcing strategies. We consider that a retailer originally orders from a risky supplier while conducting an imperfect inspection to detect infected products before selling. The retailer may speculatively keep on ordering from the risky supplier or adopt contingent sourcing by ordering from an alternative safe supplier. The retailer also has an option to implement blockchain to improve the inspection accuracy and product traceability. We derive the optimal retail prices under different sourcing strategies with and without blockchain adoption and then analyze the incentives for sourcing strategy and blockchain adoption. Then, we identify the conditions of an all-win situation for food retailer, supplier, supply chain resilience, and consumers with/without government subsidy. Finally, we extend to consider the situation that some consumers have health-safety concerns and preferences for blockchain adoption.