A Decision Support Framework for Production Flow Coordination Using Supply Chain Management Practices, Ordering Systems and Modeling Techniques

Abstract

One of the greatest challenges faced by companies is flow coordination in its supply chain (SC). For such coordination, it can be found in the literature and practice the use of modeling techniques, ordering systems (OS) and practices in supply chain management (SCM). These, however, are not jointly used for coordinated operations in SC, admitting then a theoretic gap to be explored. In that way, this work has the objective to present a decision support framework for production flow coordination by combining the use of those mechanisms. For the development of this framework, a literature review about methodologies in production flow coordination in SC was made. The developed framework has purpose to assist managers in the decision making process about the practices and systems that are more suitable for each situation, thus obtaining the best coordination in its supply chain. We highlight that the project is still in progress and the framework is in phase of evaluation.