New metrics for measuring supply chain reconfigurability

Slim Zidi (), Nadia Hamani () and Lyes Kermad ()
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Slim Zidi: University of Paris 8
Nadia Hamani: University of Picardie Jules Verne
Lyes Kermad: University of Paris 8

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2022, vol. 33, issue 8, No 12, 2392 pages

Abstract: Abstract The COVID 19 pandemic, fluctuating demand, market uncertainty and the emergence of new technologies explain the need for a more flexible and agile supply chain. In fact, several important factors should be taken into account in the process of building an adaptive and reconfigurable supply chain. Reconfigurability is used to measure quantitatively the capability of supply chain to change easily their structure and functions. The aim of this work is to evaluate the level of reconfigurability of a supply chain. Quantitative measures of six indicators that characterize reconfigurability are presented in this paper. Then, an index of reconfigurability in supply chain is developed based on The Multi-Attribute Utility Theory in order to choose the most reconfigurable configuration. An illustrative example is also given. From the discussion, it is deduced that the characteristics of the reconfigurable supply chain impacts positively on the degree of reconfigurability.

Keywords: Reconfigurable supply chain (RSC); Reconfigurability characteristics; Reconfigurability assessment; Multi-attribute utility theory (MAUT) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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