TY - JOUR
T1 - An integrated decision support framework for global supply chain co-ordination in automotive industry
AU - Liu, Shaofeng
AU - Young, R I M
AU - Ding, Lian
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Supply chain managers increasingly face co-ordination decisions of how to manage the dependencies between different business activities and between geographical locations under globalisation over last several decades. The alignment of management decisions with a global firm’s business environment and its economic performance has been identified as crucial to the firm’s success, but remains a challenge to management decision makers. This paper proposes an integrated decision support framework that can facilitate supply chain managers to make more efficient and effective global co-ordination decisions. An integrated decision support system (IDSS) is substantiated within the framework. The IDSS integrates information, processes and functions from four key components: global business context, supply chain configuration, cost management, and supply chain co-ordination. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is employed for the decision analysis. The evaluation of the decision framework has been undertaken through a case study within automotive global manufacturing, which demonstrates its applicability to providing solutions to realistic global supply chain co-ordination problems. A key feature of the decision framework is the integrative alignment of decisions with business environment (through capture of decision context) and economic performance (through analysis of decision criteria – cost management) using a formal decision making process.
AB - Supply chain managers increasingly face co-ordination decisions of how to manage the dependencies between different business activities and between geographical locations under globalisation over last several decades. The alignment of management decisions with a global firm’s business environment and its economic performance has been identified as crucial to the firm’s success, but remains a challenge to management decision makers. This paper proposes an integrated decision support framework that can facilitate supply chain managers to make more efficient and effective global co-ordination decisions. An integrated decision support system (IDSS) is substantiated within the framework. The IDSS integrates information, processes and functions from four key components: global business context, supply chain configuration, cost management, and supply chain co-ordination. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is employed for the decision analysis. The evaluation of the decision framework has been undertaken through a case study within automotive global manufacturing, which demonstrates its applicability to providing solutions to realistic global supply chain co-ordination problems. A key feature of the decision framework is the integrative alignment of decisions with business environment (through capture of decision context) and economic performance (through analysis of decision criteria – cost management) using a formal decision making process.
KW - global manufacturing context
KW - dependency and co-ordination
KW - multi-criteria decision making
KW - integrated decision support
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953020203&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2011.554869
U2 - 10.1080/0951192X.2011.554869
DO - 10.1080/0951192X.2011.554869
M3 - Article
SN - 0951-192X
VL - 24
SP - 285
EP - 301
JO - International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
JF - International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
IS - 4
ER -