SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT - APPLICATIONS AND SIMULATIONS Edited by Mamun Habib Supply Chain Management - Applications and Simulations Edited by Mamun Habib Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. 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ISBN 978-953-307-250-0 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Part 1 Supply Chain Management: Theory and Evolution 1 Chapter 1 Supply Chain Management (SCM): Theory and Evolution 3 Mamun Habib Part 2 Strategic and Tactical Issues in Supply Chain Management 15 Chapter 2 Supply Chain Management Systems Advanced Control: MPC on SCM 17 Mohammad Miranbeigi and Aliakbar Jalali Chapter 3 Supply Chain Control: A Perspective from Design for Reliability and Manufacturability Utilizing Simulations 35 Yan Liu and Scott Hareland Chapter 4 Supply Chain Event Management System 59 Bearzotti Lorena, Fernandez Erica, Guarnaschelli Armando, Salomone Enrique and Chiotti Omar Chapter 5 Power Optimization of Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) in Peak Demand Period Based on Supply Chain Network 83 Aurobi Das and V. Balakrishnan Chapter 6 The Value of Supply Chain Finance 111 Xiangfeng Chen and Chenxi Hu Part 3 Project and Technology Issues in Supply Chain 133 Chapter 7 Impact of RFID and EPCglobal on Critical Processes of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain 135 Alberto Bucciero, Anna Lisa Guido, Luca Mainetti and Luigi Patrono VI Contents Chapter 8 Business and Environment Performance Evaluation in Supply Chains: A Formal Model-Driven Approach 157 Gabriel Alves Jr., Paulo Maciel, Ricardo Lima and Fábio Magnani Chapter 9 Analysis of a Supply Chain in Electrical and Electronic Industry 183 Roberto Ferrauto Chapter 10 Research on Measurement and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Supply Chain Flexibility 203 Li Quanxi, Qi Yibing and Zhao Wanchen Part 4 Risk Managements in Supply Chain 229 Chapter 11 A Feedback Model of Control Chart for Supplier Risk Management 231 Jing Sun and Masayuki Matsui Chapter 12 Supply Chain Modeling Based on Restructuring Activities 239 Lucian Hancu Preface Supply Chain Management (SCM) has been widely researched in numerous application domains during the last decade. Despite the popularity of SCM research and applications, considerable confusion remains as to its meaning. There are several attempts made by researchers and practitioners to appropriately define SCM. Amidst fierce competition in all industries, SCM has gradually been embraced as a proven managerial approach to achieving sustainable profits and growth. This book “Supply Chain Management - Applications and Simulations” is comprised of twelve chapters and has been divided into four sections, namely Supply Chain Management: Theory and Evolution, Strategic and Tactical Issues in Supply Chain Management, Project and Technology Issues in Supply Chain, and Risk Managements in Supply Chain. Section I contains the introductory chapter that represents theory and evolution of Supply Chain Management. This chapter highlights chronological prospective of SCM in terms of time frame in different areas of manufacturing and service industries. Section II comprised five chapters that are related to strategic and tactical issues in Supply Chain Management. In chapter two, local consecutive Model Predictive Controllers (MPC) applied to a supply chain management system that consists of four echelons is presented. Two types of sequential decentralized MPC were used: in first method, each node completely by a decentralized model predictive controller optimized for its own policy, and in second method, decentralized model predictive controllers in each stage are updated in each time period. A methodology is outlined in chapter 3 that utilizes electrical simulations to account for component variability and its predicted impact on yield and quality. Identified critical features in simulations from a design for reliability and manufacturability perspective are used to drive supply chain decisions to build robust designs in an efficient way. A proposal to systematically address the problem of disruptive event management in SC is described in chapter 4. The proposal includes the definition of a SCEM (Supply X Preface Chain Event Management) system architecture conceived to provide system support for companies willing to engage in collaboration agreements for controlling the execution of their supply processes. Chapter 5 focuses on the integration of renewable energy, specifically the solar energy resources into conventional electric grid and deployment of smart architecture of hybrid energy system in the context of Green House Effect to Climate Change with the deployment of energy conservation efforts by Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) in Indian context for sustainable development of the rural and urban sector. This chapter illustrates the deployment of Energy Portal (EP) for Renewable Energy Resources based on Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) technology. Chapter 6 reveals the relation between financing services and supply chain management, and introduces how logistics firms could add value to all parties in supply chain. This chapter sheds some light on how Supply Chain Finance (SCF) impacts agents’ operational and financial decisions under the symmetric/asymmetric information and how SCF can create value for supply chain with capital constraints. In this chapter, SCF as the jointly operations/logistics and financing service, offered by a 3PL firm (Control Role), or an alliance of 3PL firm (Delegation Role) and financial institution (i.e., bank), etc. was defined. Section III encompasses four chapters that are relevant to project and technology issues in Supply Chain. Chapter 7 analyses main processes of the pharmaceutical supply chain and evaluates the impact of the combined use of the innovative technologies, such as RFID and EPCglobal, in some critical processes. Particular attention is focused on the wholesaler because it represents a middle point of the supply chain, very stressed in terms of constraints and products flow. Chapter 8 presents a modeling framework for quantitative evaluation of green supply chains (GrSCs). This chapter begins presenting a literature review of the works that address the quantitative evaluation of supply chains. After presenting a brief introduction of sustainability and supply chains, it discusses some of the performance models that are often adopted when conducting a quantitative evaluation of different kinds of systems. This chapter presented a framework based on the stochastic modeling of supply chains for evaluating business and sustainability metrics. Chapter 9 aims to provide a block analysis technique for complex electronic systems. This technique is based on the partitioning of the chain in several functional blocks and allows an identification of the block responsible for any specification violation and hence a more easy and quick solution of the problem. This chapter describes a systematic approach for the analysis of the signal integrity of a supply voltage pulse propagating from the input to the output port of a complex supply chain of devices for spatial and military applications. [...]... 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Bernard J (1997) Supply Chain Management: Myth or Reality?” Supply Chain Management Review, Vol 1, spring, 1997, pp 6-7 Supply Chain Management (SCM): Theory and Evolution 13 La Londe, Bernard J and James M Masters, “Emerging Logistics Strategies: Blueprints for the Next Century,” International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Vol 24, No 7, pp 35-47 Lee, H.L and Billington,... the supply chains due to mergers and acquisitions activities, based on constructing a set of Virtualized Supply Chains (VSCs) and applying the mergers-induced changes to these Virtualized Supply Chains This chapter introduces the terminology of the virtual modeling of the Supply Chains: business class, business dependency, bounded and unbounded Virtualized Supply Chain, risk of a business class and . SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT - APPLICATIONS AND SIMULATIONS Edited by Mamun Habib Supply Chain Management - Applications and Simulations Edited. Part 1 Supply Chain Management: Theory and Evolution 1 Chapter 1 Supply Chain Management (SCM): Theory and Evolution 3 Mamun Habib Part 2 Strategic and Tactical Issues in Supply Chain Management. Management: Theory and Evolution, Strategic and Tactical Issues in Supply Chain Management, Project and Technology Issues in Supply Chain, and Risk Managements in Supply Chain. Section I contains