Nowadays many companies are undergoing organizational transformations in order to meet the changing market demands. Thus, in order to become more competitive, supply chains (SC) are adopting new management paradigms to improve SC performance: lean, agile, resilient and green (LARG paradigms). The implementation of new production paradigms demands particular care with the issues related with Human Factors to avoid health and safety problems to workers and losses to companies. Thus, the successful introduction of these new production paradigms depends among others on a Human Factors oriented approach. This work presents a conceptual framework that allows integrating ergonomic and safety design principles during the different implementation phases of lean, agile, resilient and green practices.
This paper presents the application of a Fuzzy Decision Support System (FDSS) model designed to assist managers in their decision process related with the choice of the best alternative to face Supply Chain (SC)disturbances. The FDSS operates supported on two main pillars, one is the use of Fuzzy Set Theory to model the uncertainty associated with disturbance occurrences, their effects on the SC and the computation of a Performance Index; the other is the use of ARENA (commercial simulation tool) to study the behavior of a SC subject to disturbances, and the effects of the implementation of mitigation or contingency plans designed to counter such disturbances. Using this FDSS, the decision maker can choose which the best solution is for his company considering not only his company's characteristics, but also the characteristics of the other SC entities.
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