A study on the design of an agile supply chain

민첩 공급사슬 설계 방안에 관한 고찰

With the increasing market dynamics, the concept of agile manufacturing system gets more and more attention. For a manufacturing system to be agile, the supply chain should also have sufficient agility. However, most of the supply chain design methods are based on the human experience or trial-and-errors. In this paper, a systematic methodology is proposed. It takes into account the agility of supply chain, the behavior of which is represented as a beam model in mechanics, composed of supplier, transporter, manufacturer, distributor, and customer.