Integrated supply Chain planning: A review

Abstract

Supply chain management requires making strategic, tactical and operational decisions which involve suppliers, manufacturers and customers. Potential decision makers are involved in a centralized/decentralized decision structure which describes their relationships and interdependencies. The use of mathematical models to optimize supply chain planning problems one at a time has been extensively discussed in the literature. The integration of two or more of these problems and the use of mathematical programming to model them is less frequent. This paper reviews the main mathematical models recently developed to address the decision making process in integrated deterministic supply chain planning, emphasizing the processes which are integrated and the characteristics of the model.