The approach incorporates all operating realities, including storage capacities at production-distribution facilities, routing costs, and actual flow patterns between supply chain nodes.
Tactical planning includes deciding inventory levels (safety stock and expected inventory) for each type of spare part in distribution centers and customer plants, as well as the connection links between the supply chain nodes.
A data supply chain with nodes for big data, supported by open source, and analytics, supported by Teradata Aster feed insights into the integrated data warehouse.
With a common objective of maximizing the expected net present value indicator (ENPV), six additional ones are considered to assess the supply chains' resilience: node and flow complexity, density and node criticality, customer service level and the investment made.
In a supply chain network these nodes are suppliers, plants, distribution centers and customers which are some facilities connected by some arcs to each other.
The study contributes to gain the competitive advantage at the extended enterprise, since it analyzes the implications of changes occurred at a certain point of the supply chain for other nodes.
Strategic design decisions as number of supply chain levels, numbers of nodes at each level, distance between nodes and definition of operations for each node contribute for better performance of the production and delivery of a variety of products to the customers.
In this supply chain, some of the nodes will be outside the company and some will be inside.
Lin(2009) studied system reliability evaluation for a multistate supply chain network with failure nodes using minimal paths.
The end result will be a construct that looks a lot more like a supply chain with many interacting nodes than the hub and spoke model with a data warehouse or a large Hadoop cluster in the center.
