Engineering collaborative approaches for sustainable and thriving collaboration in the logistics operations across value chains

设计协作方法，以实现跨价值链物流运营中可持续和蓬勃发展的协作

• 批准号: RGPIN-2015-04567
• 负责人: Audy, JeanFrançois
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=644313
• 关键词: Engineering; collaborative; approaches; sustainable; thriving

In today's global economy, increasing numbers of companies have embraced the paradigm shift that they cannot compete as solely autonomous businesses, but rather have to strengthen their relations with their suppliers and customers by forming a competitive value chain. The decision-making autonomy of the business units within the value chain requires the development of collaborative approaches to coordinate the distributed activities needed to deliver the products/services to end-customers and thus be competitive on markets. Collaboration in the logistics activities linking business units within a value chain has contributed to this endeavour by delivering great benefits such as cost-savings, shorter delivery time, etc. Recently, an opportunity for new synergies in logistics activities was revealed by extending the collaboration across business units in different value chains. In this research program, we study novel collaborative approaches enabling companies to benefit from cross value chains collaboration in logistics, and this taking into account the existing collaboration within the value chain of each participating business unit. The objective is to develop system-wide aligned and integrated collaborative approaches that provide incentives to each participating business unit to aim toward the highest logistics synergies. Because logistics activities within and across value chains take place in a changing business environment and decision makers are at the core of their performance, the collaborative approaches will be exemplified in a regional case study with dynamic and human-behavioural dimensions. This multi-company case study will be conducted in a historically important and promising (new bio-economy era) industrial sector for Canada: the forest products industry. The focus will be on the intensive transportation taking place before products are shipped to the national/international markets, a logistics activity having high economic and environmental impacts for Canada. The research work in this program will lead to more robust, stable and human compatible collaborative approaches that support sustainable and thriving collaboration in the logistics operations within and across value chains. This will results in reduced logistics costs, increased service level, increased fairness among the value chains partners and last but not least, decreased negative environmental impact.

在当今的全球经济中，越来越多的公司已经接受了这种范式的转变，即它们不能作为单独的独立企业竞争，而是必须通过形成具有竞争力的价值链来加强与供应商和客户的关系。价值链内各业务单位的决策自主权要求开发协作方法，以协调向终端客户提供产品/服务所需的分散活动，从而在市场上具有竞争力。在将价值链内的业务单位联系在一起的物流活动中的合作，通过提供成本节约、更短的交付时间等巨大好处，为这一努力做出了贡献。最近，通过扩大不同价值链上的业务单位之间的协作，揭示了在物流活动中实现新协同效应的机会。在这个研究项目中，我们研究了新的协作方法，使公司能够从物流跨价值链协作中受益，这考虑到了每个参与业务单元的价值链内的现有协作。其目标是制定全系统协调一致的综合协作办法，激励每个参与的业务单位争取实现最高的物流协同增效。由于价值链内部和跨价值链的物流活动是在不断变化的商业环境中进行的，决策者是其绩效的核心，因此将在一个具有动态和人的行为层面的区域案例研究中举例说明协作方法。这一多家公司的案例研究将在加拿大一个具有历史意义和前景的(新生物经济时代)工业部门进行：森林产品工业。重点将放在产品运往国内/国际市场之前进行的密集运输上，这一物流活动对加拿大的经济和环境影响很大。该项目的研究工作将导致更强大、稳定和人类兼容的协作方法，以支持价值链内和跨价值链的物流运营中的可持续和蓬勃发展的协作。这将降低物流成本，提高服务水平，增加价值链合作伙伴之间的公平性，最后但同样重要的是，减少对环境的负面影响。