Title: Development of an integrated demand-supply balancing system for supply chain exception handling

Authors: Li-Chih Wang; Chen-Yang Cheng

Addresses: Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, P.O. Box 985, Taichung, 40704, Taiwan ' Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, P.O. Box 985, Taichung, 40704, Taiwan

Abstract: Most enterprises are suffering information invisibility in multi-site production supply chain information. Without appropriate information transparency, supply chain exception such as due date changes, and material shortage usually increase the planning complexity. In addition, the balance of supply and demand for each distinct manufacturing site simultaneously is quite difficult to maintain. Therefore, this study develops an integrated demand-supply balancing (IDSB) system framework and takes a textile company that has implemented the IDSB system to demonstrate how the IDSB system to handle supply chain exception. DSB function justifies the feasibility of each reallocation plan in terms of supply and demand balancing perspective. Finally, a textile company case study shows that the IDSB system can indeed support global production planners to effectively generate more feasible multi-site master production schedule and reallocation plan than traditional approach in terms of available material, capacity and order due date.

Keywords: supply chain planning; multi-site MPS; master production schedule; exception handling; supply-demand balancing; supply chain management; SCM; textile industry; scheduling; production planning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISCM.2014.065059

International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, 2014 Vol.7 No.1, pp.70 - 91

Received: 08 Feb 2014
Accepted: 27 Jul 2014
Published online: 27 Oct 2014 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article