TY  - JOUR
AB  - An increase in business overheads due to the enterprise dynamics is postulated to be a cubic function of the area between the actual response of a company in the supply chain and a theoretical neutral axis, where demand equals supply. Reduction of these dynamics has become critical to the competitiveness of the company and even the whole supply chain. The impact of seven causal factors on the dynamic performance of a generic supply chain simulation with referenceto the beer game is studied, guidelines for supply chain re‐engineering in order to reduce such dynamics are provided, and coordination dynamics in networking organizational structure are identified. It is then shown that reduction of coordination dynamics is an alternative solution to structural re‐engineering, e.g. shortening manufacturing and transport lead times. Explores the dynamic performance of both centralized and decentralized coordination mechanisms and proposes that there is no essential difference in performance; the latter is more flexible and allows for autonomy of different companies if it is well coordinated. Finally, proposes a decentralized coordination method by using a market mechanism.
VL  - 11
IS  - 5
SN  - 0957-6061
DO  - 10.1108/09576060010335627
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/09576060010335627
AU  - de Souza Robert
AU  - Zice Song
AU  - Chaoyang Liu
PY  - 2000
Y1  - 2000/01/01
TI  - Supply chain dynamics and optimization
T2  - Integrated Manufacturing Systems
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 348
EP  - 364
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -