Strategic Supply Chain Management in Process Industries : An Application to Specialty Chemicals Production Network Design

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CoverContents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation and Objectives -- 1.2 Approach and Dissertation Outline -- 2 Production Network Design and Specialty Chemicals -- 2.1 Supply Chain Management and Production Network Design -- 2.1.1 Supply Chains and Production Networks -- 2.1.2 Production Network Design -- 2.1.3 Production Network Design and Advanced Planning Systems -- 2.1.4 Generic Production Network Design Strategies -- 2.2 Production Network Design and Industrial Location Science -- 2.2.1 Introduction to Industrial Location Science -- 2.2.2 Major Findings from Industrial Location Science -- 2.3 Specialty Chemicals Production -- 2.3.1 Process Industries, Chemical Industry and Specialty Chemicals -- 2.3.2 Chemical Production Sites -- 2.3.3 Production Technologies in Chemical Industry -- 2.3.4 Specialty Chemicals Production Networks -- 2.4 Production Network Planning and Controlling -- 2.4.1 Production Network Planning Process -- 2.4.2 Problem Definition Phase -- 2.4.3 Production Network Optimization Phase -- 2.4.4 Site Selection Phase -- 2.4.5 Integration of Production Network Design into Strategic Planning -- 3 Global Production Network Optimization -- 3.1 Location Analysis and Production Network Optimization -- 3.2 Review of Supply Network Optimization Literature -- 3.2.1 Classification of Supply Network Optimization Models -- 3.2.2 Review of Individual Publications -- 3.3 Modeling Specialty Chemicals Production Networks -- 3.3.1 General Model Characteristics -- 3.3.2 Objective Function -- 3.3.3 Capacity Selection, Expansion and Reduction -- 3.3.4 Plant Loading and Economies of Scale and Scope -- 3.3.5 Specific Factors of Global Production Networks -- 3.3.6 Single Sourcing -- 3.3.7 Product Transfers -- 3.3.8 Other Model Features -- 3.4 Mathematical Optimization Model -- 3.4.1 Model Notation -- 3.4.2 Model Formulation -- 3.4.3 Model Extensions -- 3.4.4 Accounting for Uncertainty: Robust Production Network Design -- 3.5 Numerical Performance -- 4 Evaluation of Individual Production Sites -- 4.1 Introduction to Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis -- 4.1.1 Classification of MCDA Methods -- 4.1.2 Common Steps of MADA Methods -- 4.2 Traditional MADA Methods -- 4.2.1 Simple Additive Weighting and Simple Scoring -- 4.2.2 Analytic Hierarchy Process -- 4.3 Outranking Approaches -- 4.3.1 ELECTRE -- 4.3.2 PROMETHEE -- 4.4 Data Envelopment Analysis -- 4.5 A Specialty Chemicals Site Assessment Model -- 4.5.1 Choice of Method -- 4.5.2 The AHP Site Assessment Model -- 4.5.3 Lessons Learned from Application Case Studies -- 5 Case Study Production Network Optimization -- 5.1 Developing a Decision Support Tool for Strategic Network Design -- 5.1.1 Industry Requirements -- 5.1.2 Structure of the Decision Support Tool -- 5.2 Creating the Value Chain Model -- 5.2.1 Mapping the Current Value Chain Configuration -- 5.2.2 Aggregating Demand and Product Data -- 5.2.3 Identifying Cost Drivers for Operating Expenditures -- 5.2.4 Identifying Alternative Value Chain Conf.

10.1007/978-3-540-72182-6 [DOI]

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