By understanding the issues relating to maintaining multiple views of an enterprise, the benefits of multiple views can be realized while minimizing its difficulties. Three approaches to integrating multiple views are explained and their relative shortcomings are discussed. Agile characteristics of the supply chain. The International Conference on Agile Manufacturing. This paper presents a framework for creating an agile supply chain.
Agility is defined in terms of agile determinants, agile dimensions, and agile characteristics.
Supply chain optimization in the extended enterprise involves far more than the coordination of schedules and material flow. Creating the agile supply chain requires viewing the chain as a holistic system comprised of six basic activities of an enterprise. Whitman, L. and K.J. Rogers. Product Design and the Integrated Supply Chain. The concept of supply chain improvement has been the focus of many efforts the last two decades.