Complexity Assessment of Assembly Supply Chains from the Sustainability Viewpoint

Vladimir Modrak, Zuzana Soltysova and Daniela Onofrejova
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Vladimir Modrak: Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies, Technical University of Kosice, 080 01 Presov, Slovakia
Zuzana Soltysova: Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies, Technical University of Kosice, 080 01 Presov, Slovakia
Daniela Onofrejova: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Management, Industrial and Digital Engineering, Technical University of Kosice, 042 00 Kosice, Slovakia

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 24, 1-15

Abstract: Assembly supply chain systems are becoming increasingly complex and, as a result, there is more and more need to design and manage them in a way that benefits the producers and also satisfies the interests of community stakeholders. The structural (static) complexity of assembly supply chain networks is one of the most important factors influencing overall system complexity. Structures of such networks can be modeled as a graph, with machines as nodes and material flow between the nodes as links. The purpose of this paper is to analyze existing assembly supply chain complexity assessment methods and propose such complexity metric(s) that will be able to accurately reflect not only specific criteria for static complexity measures, but also selected sustainability aspects. The obtained results of this research showed that selected complexity indicators reflect sustainability facets in different ways, but one of them met the mentioned requirements acceptably.

Keywords: assembly supply chain; sustainability; complexity indicators; testing criteria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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