In an environment of mass customization where demand information can be placed in advance with sequencing orders, the question of the best use of this information arises in a supply chain. This situation led the authors to analyze the efficiency of current mechanisms of scheduling coordination...

The transition from synchronous supplies to synchronous production represent a possible alternative to the neighbourhood logistics configurations, especially in the automotive industry. It allows to gain, on certain conditions, efficiency and more manoeuvrability faced with a strong variability...

Dans une chaîne logistique composée d’une ligne d’assemblage (client industriel), dédiée à une production de masse de produits diversifiés et d’une unité de production (fournisseur), approvisionnant un poste de cette ligne en composants alternatifs, se pose la question du choix de...

Under the influence of globalization,and the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)that modify radically our relationship with space and time, the hierarchical company locked up on its local borders becomes an Extended Company, without borders, opened and adaptable. In this...

After a brief description of the role and functions of digital information systems, we examine, within the conception of these systems, the decisive breaks resulting from technological advances. Then, we clarify the problem of “capitalizing on company’s knowledge” in order to introduce a...

This paper introduces a reflection on the types of data to accessed by be extended company's employees from the Knowledge Management viewpoint. This leads us to distinguish between three types of data: main-stream-data, shared-data, and source-of-knowledge-data. In that way, as distinguishing...