Abstract
Unexpected occurrence like natural calamity, abruptly change in customer demands, upgradation of technologies, necessity of compatible suppliers etc. is the most challenging issues even for efficient global supply chain management. Therefore, modeling of responsive supply chain is an emerging technology for sustaining any firm/industry in future competitive environment. In this paper, an attempt has been made to not only analyze the performance of efficient supply chain management but also how to improve the performance of existing supply chain with the objective of developing a modeling of responsive supply chain management. The complexity of the model is also highlighted with the help of numerical example. This paper also explores the possibility to mathematical modeling of the responsive supply chain which will be an emerging topic for researchers and practitioners. The modeling of responsive supply chain can be employed as a competitive strategy for e-commerce, green supply chain, and compatible supplier selection problem. The another salient feature of this paper is that a distinct comparative literature review of the lean, agile, efficient, and responsive supply chain management has been presented.
Highlights
During the last few years, supply chain network faces new challenges to sustain in diversified and globalized competitive market’s competition, such as uncertain customer demands, shorter product development time, lower time-to-market, higher product quality, and last but not the least optimal total supply chain cost
There is a great scope to do research and identify how the different types of supply chain network say for example, lean, agile and responsiveness are related with each other
(4) How to identify the enablers of responsive supply chain for different manufacturing industry say for example steel plate, automotive plant, and ship building industry
Summary
During the last few years, supply chain network faces new challenges to sustain in diversified and globalized competitive market’s competition, such as uncertain customer demands, shorter product development time, lower time-to-market, higher product quality, and last but not the least optimal total supply chain cost. Compatible supplier selection and environmental consideration creates additional problem to maintain efficient and responsive supply chain network. When we start to visualize supply chain network from perspective of diverse customer demand it is inevitable to make supply chain more efficient and responsive so that it could handle the customer’s requirements. In this paper we proposed a modelling of responsive supply chain
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