Enterprise Networks and Logistics for Agile Manufacturing

Lihui Wang is a professor of virtual manufacturing at the University of Skövde’s Virtual Systems Research Centre in Sweden. He was previously a senior research scientist at the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute, National Research Council of Canada. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, and a registered professional engineer in Canada. His research interests and responsibilities are in web-based and sensor-driven real-time monitoring and control, distributed machining process planning, adaptive assembly planning, collaborative design, supply chain management, as well as intelligent and adaptive manufacturing systems. S.C. Lenny Koh is Chair in Operations Management, Director of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre, Associate Dean of Alumni Relations, and Head of the Operations Management Group at the University of Sheffield’s Management School, UK. She is also a co-founder of the Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS) Consortium. Her industrial and research experiences include implementation and operations of MRP/MRPII/ERP systems, batch-manufacturing and high-tech environments, directorships/leaderships in the agricultural sector, directorships and management in the business-to-business and business-to-consumer food supply chains, business ventures and investment, uncertainty management, and low carbon and green supply chain.

Overview of Enterprise Networks and Logistics for Agile Manufacturing.- A Review of Research and Practice for the Industrial Networks of the Future.- Agile Manufacturing in Complex Supply Networks.- Enterprise Network and Supply Chain Structure: the Role of Fit.- Enterprise Networks and Information and Communications Technology Standardisation.- Collaborative Demand Planning: Creating Value Through Demand Signals.- Value Creation and Supplier Selection: an Empirical Analysis.- Supplier Selection in Agile Manufacturing Using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process.- A Sustainable Green Supply Chain for Globally Integrated Networks.- A Multi-agent Framework for Agile Outsourced Supply Chains.- Agent-based Simulation and Simulation-based Optimisation for Supply Chain Management.- Analysing Interactions among Battery Recycling Barriers in the Reverse Supply Chain.- Design of Reverse Supply Chains in Support of Agile Closed-loop Logistics Networks.- The Evolution of Logistics Service Providers and the Role of Internet-based Applications in Facilitating Global Operations.- A Heuristic for Heterogeneous Capacitated Pick-up and Delivery Logistics Problems with Time Windows in Agile Manufacturing and the Distribution Supply Chain.- Visualisation and Verification of Communication Protocols for Networked Distributed Systems.- Robustness and Capability Indices in the Optimisation of an Airline’s Fleet – Bridging Contradicting Outcomes.