文档介绍：Computers
&Chemical
Engineering
puters and Chemical Engineering 24 (2000) 1143-1149
pchemeng
Dynamic modeling and classical control theory for supply chain
management
Edgar Perea a,,, Ignacio Grossmann a, Erik Ydstie a, Turaj Tahmassebi b
a Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
b Unilever Research, Port Sunlight Laboratory, Wirral L63 3JW, UK
Abstract
This study proposes a novel dynamic approach for supply chain management based on the development of a dynamic
framework to model supply chains, and on the application of ideas from process dynamics and control to manage it. This novel
framework models the flow of information and material within the supply chain, and uses them to capture its dynamic behavior.
Moreover, the use of ideas from dynamics and control allows the design of systematic decision-making processes for the supply
chain as if they were control laws for a dynamic system. The study tests several heuristic control laws for the model and analyzes
their impact on the behavior of the supply chain. The result is the reproduction of interesting trade offs found in real systems,
which give valuable insights for the future direction of this research towards finding a near optimal decision-making process for
a supply chain. © 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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