• Corpus ID: 14470186

Real-time Supply Chain Planning and Control – A Case Study from the Norwegian Food Industry

@inproceedings{Dreyer2008RealtimeSC,
  title={Real-time Supply Chain Planning and Control – A Case Study from the Norwegian Food Industry},
  author={Heidi C. Dreyer and Ragnhild Bjartnes and Torbj{\o}rn H. Netland and Jan Ola Strandhagen},
  year={2008}
}

• H. Dreyer, Ragnhild Bjartnes, +1 author J. Strandhagen
• Published 2008
• Business

Supply chain planning and control is about balancing resources and supply with market demand in a supply chain context. Increased focus on supply chain optimisation and need for responsiveness has significantly increased the importance and complexity of this task. Competitiveness today is achieved by demand-driven supply chain planning and control systems, which again require visibility of data and visualisation of appropriate decision information. This paper argues that access to real-time information, enabled by automatic real-time and continuous data acquisition from RFID-technology, will contribute to a shift towards more demand driven supply chains. The discussion is based on a case study from Norwegian food industry, where the main characteristics of future planning and control are expected to be automated and intelligent control, online and continuous re-planning and handling of deviations, replenishment responsibility transferred upwards in the supply chain, information visibility, and differentiated control. Important areas for further research are development of new control concepts, principles and algorithms, development of unified control models for supply chains, the new working environment and development of new collaborative models and contract types.