Flexible Manufacturing Systems and Flexible Supply Chains: Modeling, Decision Making, and Optimization

Author: Huazhong Sheng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Flexibility is an equally important metric as cost, quality, and delivery time in measuring the competitiveness of enterprises and their supply chains. This competitiveness metric not only involves technical issues in its implementation but also concerns decision-making and coordination in the operation management of enterprises and supply chains, thereby becoming an important part of strategic management for enterprises and supply chains. Currently, the principles and methods of managing and decision-making for flexible manufacturing systems in manufacturing enterprises are showing a trend of expanding into other management fields beyond service management and operational management. This book introduces the relevant theories and methods of flexible manufacturing systems and flexible supply chain management from the perspectives of modeling methods for improvement, decision-making problems, and optimization, emphasizing the role of management and decision-making in enhancing flexibility, as well as new ideas and methods related to flexibility, and attempts to establish a framework from enterprises to supply chains.