SUDDEN
| Description
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Contemporary markets require dynamic networks of
collaborating organisations. Effective collaboration
inside such networks motivates optimisation during
planning and flexibility at enactment time, yet these
two strands are treated separately at present.This
project focuses on SME suppliers within automotive
ecosystems, aiming to empower them to collaboratively
design and coordinate supply networks. This will be
made possible by a novel approach which integrates
collaborative optimisation and last-minute
responsiveness of supply chains in an easy-to-use
software prototype. A methodology for automotive
supplier profiling and development will be created to
support the implementation of the approach.
The underlying theoretical model uses principles of activity coordination and meta-management to deliver two key contributions. Firstly, innovative and emergent compositions of value-adding activities and services are made possible by separating abstract requirements for activities such as transportation or packaging from providers such as logistic suppliers. Secondly, responsiveness to last-minute changes of customer needs or transport disturbances is provided by postponing the allocation of providers to abstract activity requirements till the last possible moment, and continuously monitoring and improving the effectiveness of the supplier allocation. To facilitate the uptake by typical SME users, visual models of supply processes, services, allocation policies, and partner profiles will be created to balance needs for formal semantics and ease-of-understanding. An agent-based infrastructure and formalised contract mechanisms will implement emergent service bundling and service-provider coalitions. Systematic value-based bid evaluation will be used, and simulated evaluations will feed into SME development using role profiling. Allocation mechanisms and evaluation criteria will be continuously adapted to marketplace changes and real-time information from mobile devices. partially supported by the European Community under the Innovation Society Technologies (IST) programme of the 6th Framework Programme |
| Duration
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2006 - 2008
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| Role
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project member, co-coordinator of JKU's activities
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| Publications
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none |
| Link
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www.sudden.biz
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