Paper Info
Title
New Flexibility Drivers For Manufacturing, Supply Chain And Service Operations
Abstract
Increasing product proliferation, customisation, competition and customer expectations, as well as supply side disruptions, pose significant challenges to firm operations. Such challenges require improved efficiency and resilience in manufacturing, service and supply chain systems. New and innovative flexibility concepts and models offer a prospective route to such operational improvements. Several emerging issues in flexibility, such as risk and uncertainty management, environmental sustainability, optimal strategies under competition, optimal operations with strategic consumer behaviours are being examined in this regard. This overview provides a concise review of these critical research issues, and discusses related papers featured in this special issue. Four major flexibility drivers are classified: disruption risks, resilience and the ripple effect in the supply chain; digitalisation, smart operations and e-supply chains; sustainability and closed-loop supply chains; and supplier integration and behavioural flexibility.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1080/00207543.2018.1457813
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
flexibility, flexible manufacturing, supply chain management, supply chain risk management, supply chain coordination, Industry 4.0, manufacturing systems, service supply chain, ripple effect
Journal
56
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
0020-7543
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dmitry A. Ivanov129929.05
Ajay Das2225.55
Tsan-Ming Choi3104075.03