Virtual organization and supply chain management

Author

Kangilaski, Taivo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Control, Tallinn Univ. of Technol.

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2005

Lastpage

712

Abstract

In the center of supply chain management initiatives are the series of applications that synchronize demand and supply, manage inventory, ensure service-level commitments, and provide greater visibility into the manufacturing operations. At the same time the concept of Virtual Organization (VO) challenges the way industrial production systems are planned and managed. The topic is analyzed in context of vertically integrated public limited company Eesti Energia AS (EE) located in the Republic of Estonia where for the companies that are related with electricity grid management is implemented software in the framework Tehnonet (TN), which uses concept of VO

Keywords

inventory management; supply and demand; supply chain management; virtual enterprises; Eesti Energia AS; VO challenge; demand and supply; electricity grid management; framework Tehnonet; industrial production system; inventory management; public limited company; supply chain management; virtual organization; Application software; Companies; Computer aided manufacturing; Costs; Energy management; Inventory management; Load management; Manufacturing processes; Supply chain management; Supply chains;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005. ETFA 2005. 10th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Catania

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9401-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2005.1612595

Filename

1612595