Integrated supply chain management challenges in industry

Nicolas Zufferey, Olivier Gallay, Reinhard Buergy and Oleksandr Velykoivanenko

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2026, vol. 53, issue 2, 215-242

Abstract: A supply chain is usually made of various levels in the following sequence: suppliers, plants, warehouses, and shops. Each level has often its own decision makers, constraints to satisfy, and objective functions to optimise. Often, all these decision makers have limited information and optimise local levels on their own, which can result in large supply chain variations. In contrast, in the case of integrated logistics, fewer decisions makers having more information and more decisional power are likely to optimise larger portions of the supply chain. This can result in worse solutions for each supply-chain level but in better solutions when considering the entire supply chain. In this paper, in addition to highlighting the importance of capacity management, we present the benefits of integrated management approaches relying on three industrial applications belonging to different fields (namely, production scheduling, cross docking, and global supply chain management). Integrated logistics challenges are also identified.

Keywords: integrated optimisation; capacity management; production scheduling; cross docking; supply chain management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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