A New Approach for Supply Chain Management Monitoring Systems Adapted to Crisis

Abstract

Sensitive products supply chain and supply chain facing crisis management share several aspects. In both cases, several decision makers have to choose the best options most of the time under pressure, often in emergency and need to access numerous information from the field. This shared monitoring aspect put forward the visualization need to consider in each decision all the crisis potential impacts. Unfortunately, for the transportation steps we focus on, the current transport management systems do not reach these requirements. In this paper, focusing on supply chains during crisis situations, we present a new monitoring system with adapted functionalities. The added value is a connection in real time and relevant way the data from the field to the information on a shared model used to make reliable decisions. We use the French Blood Establishment supply chain to illustrate the proposition.