An application to support the supply chain collaborative planning process under temporal and spatial integration

Resumen

The present paper shows the developed application with the aim of supporting the collaborative planning decision-making process of a generic supply chain (SC CP). The application allows defining various temporal decision levels (temporal integration). Furthermore, for each temporal decision level it is possible to define both a centralized decision-making (just one decisional centre (DC)) and a distributed decision-making (several DC’s), being necessary for this last case to deal with the spatial integration. The application collects the relevant information about the different views (physical, organization, decision, function and information views) describing the SC CP process, with the aim of supporting the model-maker to develop the corresponding mathematical programming models of each DC identified in the supply chain. Then, the resolution of each DC mathematical programming model can be solved in the sequence defined trough the function view simulating the real decision making process. Keywords: Collaborative Planning, Supply Chain, Mathematical Programming Models, Application