Supply Chain Reconfiguration and Models’ Adaptation

Abstract

In this chapter, we consider issues of SC reconfiguration and models’ adaptation. We classify different SC reconfiguration issues within the control loop. The considerations presented lead us from a narrow traditional interpretation of complex systems’ reconfiguration to a wide interpretation within a new applied theory of SDC. In the first phase of re-configuration, the forming (generation) of allowable multi-structural macro-states is performed. In other words, a structural-functional synthesis of a new SC should be fulfilled in accordance with an actual or forecasted situation. In the second phase, a single multi-structural macro-state is selected, and adaptive plans of SC transition to the selected macro-state are constructed. Subsequently, a mathematical model of the SC reconfiguration and algorithms of parametric and structure adaptation are presented.