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Computers and Chemical Engineering 31 2007 496–518 A model-based rescheduling framework for managing abnormal supply chain events Arief Adhitya, Rajagopalan Srinivasan ?, I.A. Karimi Laboratory for Intelligent Applications in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 4, Singapore 117576, Singapore Received 17 November 2005; received in revised form 30 June 2006; accepted 6 July 2006 Available online 17 August 2006 Abstract Enterprises today have realized the importance of supply chain management to achieve operational ef?ciency, cut costs, and maintain quality. Uncertainties in supply, demand, transportation, market conditions, and many other factors can interrupt supply chain operations, causing signi?cant adverse effects. These uncertainties motivate the development of decision support systems for managing disruptions in the supply chain. In this paper, we propose a model-based framework for rescheduling operations in the face of supply chain disruptions. A causal model, called the composite-operations graph, captures the cause-and-effect among all the variables in supply chain operation. Its subgraph, called scheduled- operations graph, captures the causal relationships in a schedule and is used for identifying the consequences of a disruption. Rescheduling is done by searching a recti?cations-graph, which captures all possible options to overcome the disruption effects, based on a user-speci?ed utility function. In contrast to heuristic approaches, the main advantages of the proposed model-based rescheduling method are the completeness of solution search and ?exibility of the utility function. The proposed framework is illustrated using a re?nery supply chain example. ? 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Risk management; Optimization; Reactive scheduling; Uncertainty; Crude oil 1. Introduction root cause, and proposing corrective actions as requ