Resumen de Panorama de la gestión de la cadena de suministro: retos, colaboración y gestión de excepciones
Esther Álvarez de los Mozos, Fernando Díaz, Miguel Angel Larrinaga Ojanguren
- español
La crisis global nos permite encontrar la excusa perfecta para revisar la relación de una empresa con sus proveedores y clientes, es decir, para centrarnos en lo que se conoce como cadena de suministros. Tras una descripción de los principales retos que esta gestión supone, el artículo se centra en la colaboración entre agentes ofreciendo una gestión proactiva de las excepciones en dicha cadena, teniendo en mente el efecto bullwhip. Así, cada planta en un entorno productivo deja de ser autónoma en su planificación productiva con mejora en la visibilidad de la información compartida, con transmisión más rápida de cualquier contratiempo o excepción. El artículo termina con una breve mención a la computación en la nube en este contexto.
- English
Global crisis is a good excuse to review the business relationship with suppliers and customers, that is, a thorough rethink of a company’s supply chain. A supply chain is composed of a set of different agents such as suppliers, manufacturers and distributors. In order to manage a supply chain in a successful way, it is necessary to reduce some key aspects like lead times and stock levels, since they contribute to increase the global cost of the supply chain. This research aims at building a proactive exceptions management solution that operates in real time by monitoring possible disturbances and processing them on a wide basis, thus considering their impact on the overall supply chain. In this way, a suitable synchronization of the different production schedules will be achieved, thus leading to a global competitive advantage over competitors. The selected approach will make use of distributed control, where decisions are made at each node taking into account the information interchanged with other nodes of the supply chain. This means that each plant will be autonomous as regards production planning and scheduling but at the same time will take advantage of the common information of the supply chain, so as to allow a dynamic collaboration between the agents. Some expected benefits of the system are the following: a better information visibility, a fast notification of disturbances throughout the supply chain, a synchronized production and a collaborative production scheduling. The article ends with a short comment about the implications of Cloud Computing within this framework.
