Abstract
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) face steep challenges in fulfilling sustainability
and resilience requirements when joining global supply chains. These challenges often relate to lack of capabilities, accreditations and/or capacity demanded by OEMs and Tier 1 players in the process of forming a supply chain composition. To address some of the challenges and lower entry barriers for SMEs, this paper formalises a Collaboration Design Method (CDM) that can assemble and coordinate supplier teams responding to a tender from a large buyer. CDM comprises five recursive design decisions: (1) Decomposing tendering goals; (2) Assigning sub-goals to suppliers in a team; (3) Operationalizing sub-goals through supplier processes within a team; (4) Decomposing processes to identify steps that can be outsourced; and (5) Defining coordination mechanisms. Feedback from industrial SMEs indicates that CDM provides a viable approach to tame supply chain formation complexity and ease barriers that prevent
SMEs from collaborating in global supply chains.
and resilience requirements when joining global supply chains. These challenges often relate to lack of capabilities, accreditations and/or capacity demanded by OEMs and Tier 1 players in the process of forming a supply chain composition. To address some of the challenges and lower entry barriers for SMEs, this paper formalises a Collaboration Design Method (CDM) that can assemble and coordinate supplier teams responding to a tender from a large buyer. CDM comprises five recursive design decisions: (1) Decomposing tendering goals; (2) Assigning sub-goals to suppliers in a team; (3) Operationalizing sub-goals through supplier processes within a team; (4) Decomposing processes to identify steps that can be outsourced; and (5) Defining coordination mechanisms. Feedback from industrial SMEs indicates that CDM provides a viable approach to tame supply chain formation complexity and ease barriers that prevent
SMEs from collaborating in global supply chains.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 18th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2024) |
| Subtitle of host publication | Sustainable transformation towards autonomous manufacturing systems |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 25 Apr 2024 |
Publication series
| Name | IFAC-PapersOnLine series |
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Keywords
- ontology, elastic manufacturing, demand fluctuation
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