Supply Chain Event Management System

LORENA BEARZOTTI,; ERICA FERNÁNDEZ; ARMANDO GUARNASCHELLI; HECTOR ENRIQUE SALOMONE; OMAR CHIOTTI,

Supply Chain Management - Applications and Simulations

In-Tech

Año: 2011; p. 59 - 82

Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) is defined as an event-based business process whereby significant disruptive events are recognized in time, reactive actions are quickly triggered, the flow of  information and material are adjusted and key employees are immediately notified. The goal of SCEM is to enable the SC to respond to disruptive events avoiding the need to re-plan the operations of the SC. To support this business process, a new generation of event-based information systems, known as SCEM Systems (Masing, 2003; Zimmermann, 2006), has been proposed. This proposal emphasizes the necessity of exception-based management of the SC, supporting short term logistic decisions, avoiding complex cycles of re-planning, aimed at reducing the gap between the planning system and the execution of the schedules generated by it.In this chapter a proposal to systematically address the problem of disruptive event management in SC is described. Both academic and industrial researchers (Zimmermann, 2006, Radjou et al., 2002) have identified this problem as not being adequately covered by state of the art solutions in the SCEM systems. Moreover, the ability to automatically detect disruptions and repair them locally without affecting coordinated and coexistent schedules within a SC, is recognized to be a major competitive advantage in next generation of SCM systems.