366 Pages
    by CRC Press

    366 Pages 38 Color & 87 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    366 Pages 38 Color & 87 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    A fail-safe supply network is designed to mitigate the impact of variations and disruptions on people and corporations. This is achieved by (1) developing a network structure to mitigate the impact of disruptions that distort the network structure and (2) planning flow through the network to neutralize the effects of variations.





    In this monograph, we propose a framework, develop mathematical models and provide examples of fail-safe supply network design. We show that, contrary to current thinking as embodied in the supply network literature, disruption management decisions made at the strategic network design level are not independent from variation management decisions made at the operational level. Accordingly, we suggest that it is beneficial to manage disruptions and variations concurrently in supply networks. This is achieved by architecting fail-safe supply networks, which are characterized by the following elements: reliability, robustness, flexibility, structural controllability, and resilience.



    Organizations can use the framework presented in this monograph to manage variations and disruptions. Managers can select the best operational management strategies for their supply networks considering variations in supply and demand, and identify the best network restoration strategies including facility fortification, backup inventory, flexible production capacity, flexible inventory, and transportation route reconfiguration. The framework is generalizable to other complex engineered networks.

    1 Conception of Fail-Safe Supply Networks. 2 Variation Management in a Single Forward Supply Chain. 3 Variation Management in Pre- and After-Sales Supply Chains of Non-Repairable Products. 4 Variation Management in the Product-Service Supply Chains of Repairable Products. 5 Variation Management in Supply Networks. 6 Disruption Management using Robust Design in Supply Networks. 7 Structural Controllability in Managing Disruptions in Supply Networks. 8 Disruption Management: Resilience Design of Structurally Controllable Supply Networks. 9 Concurrent Management of Disruptions and Variations. 10 Emerging Technologies and Extension of the Fail-Safe Framework to Other Networks.

    Biography

    Shabnam Rezapour, Janet K. Allen, Ramakrishnan S. Srinivasan, Jeffrey D. Tew, Farrokh Mistree