An Efficient Framework for Tactical Management in Supply Chain Systems

Although dynamic supply chain management is nowadays quite widely studied, several problems related to their control remain a challenging task. Indeed, most of the methods are model-based control strategies where supply chain models play a major role. The increasing complexity of these systems makes their representation more difficult and fails to capture all the dynamic behavior of the supply chain networks. This paper proposes a new efficient and easy implementable framework for tactical management in supply chain systems. The developed approach rests on the use of model-free control in order to deal with the inventory control of supply chains. The provided numerical simulations of a petrochemical example shows the effectiveness and robustness of model-free controllers against the classic controllers.