Supply chain competitiveness: measuring the impact of location factors, uncertainty and manufacturing practices

A Fuzzy Goal Programming Approach for Collaborative Supply Chain Master Planning

“…In SC planning decision processes, uncertainty is a main factor that may influence the effectiveness of the configuration and coordination of SCs (Davis 1993;Minegishi and Thiel 2000;Jung et al 2004), and tends to propagate up and down the SC, affecting performance considerably (Bhatnagar and Sohal 2005). Future studies may consider uncertainty in parameters such as demand, production capacity, selling prices, etc.…”

Reshoring of Manufacturing

“…This decision has a determining effect on supply chain performance not just in quantitative aspects (transport costs, scale economies and other cost based variables) but also in lead-time, inventory, responsiveness to demand variability, flexibility and quality. So, supply chain competitiveness is impacted essentially by three important factors: location factors, supply chain uncertainty, and manufacturing practices (Bhatnagar and Sohal, 2005). This is illustrated below in Figure 7.…”

“…This is illustrated below in Figure 7. (Bhatnagar and Sohal, 2005) To know the best possible location Supply Chain Management (SCM) can be used, a concept that first emerged 30 years ago. It is a cross-functional proposal that comprises managing the movement of raw materials into an organization, certain aspects of the internal processing of materials into finished goods, and the mobility of finished goods out of the organization and toward the end consumer.…”

Selection of the best location for solar plants in Turkey

“…The cost of energy, which is the basic variable of second criterion, must be considered in the assessment. There have been a number of previous studies of location problems (Domschke and Drexl, 1985;Bhatnagar and Sohal, 2005). Several surveys of the applications of location models have been performed (Eiselt, 1992;Jacobsen and Madsen, 1980;Marks and Liebman, 1971;Wirasinghe and Waters, 1983;Hopmans, 1986;Kimes and Fitzsimmons, 1990;Huxley, 1982;Tryfos, 1986;Vasko et al, 1987;Hogan, 1990;Azadeh et al, 2008).…”