Integrating Supply Chain and Production Chain: a Genesis in the Ethanol Industry

• Autor(a) principal: Ferragi, Eder Moreno
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: JOSCM. Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Texto Completo: http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/joscm/article/view/58788
• topic: Supply chain maps; product maps; production chain; chain visibility; agribusiness.

Although frequently used interchangeably, the concepts of supply chain and production chain are considered in this study as two distinct and complementary theoretical frameworks for the conception of a data-mapping model titled SCMap – Supply Chain Map. The model’s objective is to identify and assess real chains of companies and products. An application in the agribusiness sector, starting with a specific sugarcane processing plant and the biofuel ethanol is performed. The SCMap establishes a structured and integrated manner of linking products and companies, considering three different categories of relationships: (1) between companies – supply chain approach; (2) between products – production chain approach, and; (3) between companies and products – regarding commercial practices in the corporate environment. Grounded on Graph Theory and Social Network Analysis – SNA, the software UCINET and NetDraw application are used to draw the maps and quantitatively assess the centrality of each company and product relative to the whole chain.