Food Supply Chain Management by Ball Stephen

Author:Ball, Stephen...
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-29T20:02:54.952000+00:00

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Modern material flow systems

In logistics circles a number of approaches embracing ideas on lean production and JIT delivery (Womack and Jones 1996) have been well publicized and associated with particular market sectors and/or management consultants. These approaches, namely Quick Response (QR), Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), Vender Managed Inventory (VMI) and Continuous Replenishment Programme (CRP) are covered in more detail in the glossary.

There are a number of important supply chain design principles running through the foregoing initiatives. They have been confirmed by theoretical analyses, simulation experiments and industrial case studies covering various market sectors (Towill 1997b). All of these simulation experiments were based on synchronous control, i.e. constant ‘time buckets’ for decision making, since this had already been shown to reduce ‘interference’ between various value streams competing for the same resources. Hence the synchronization principle is a key enabler in modern logistics. The remaining principles of total cycle time compression, echelon elimination, information transparency and use of appropriate simple robust decision support systems (DSS) have been evaluated on a wide range of supply chain models so can be recommended with confidence (Wikner et al. 1991).

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