Strategic Network Design for Hyperconnected Mobile Supply Chains
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In today’s competitive world, businesses must offer high-quality products that can be delivered fast and cheaply. Three main strategies have been identified to solve this challenge: fast delivery, deploying inventory near to customers, and distributed production near to customers. Using Physical Internet concepts of resource sharing and flow consolidation leveraging modularization, standardization, interfaces, and protocols, Marcotte and Montreuil were the first to introduce the concept of Hyperconnected Mobile Production to contribute to the distributed production near-to-customers strategy. But their work only considered single tier supply chain. In this paper, we introduce Hyperconnected Mobile Supply Chains, a hyperconnected multi-party open hub network with plug-and-play modular mobile production units for the multi-layers involved across the supply chain system. We propose a decisionmaking framework for the strategic network design of hyperconnected mobile supply chains, for selecting the location, size, and number of facilities for open-hub network, leveraging capacity pooling and plug-and-play modular mobile production unit.
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2024-05
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