农产品供应链管理的模型外文翻译（可编辑）.doc

农产品供应链管理的模型外文翻译 A Model of Supply Chain Management Adapted for Agricultural Products Material Source: ////0. . seiofbluemountain. Com /en /search / detail. php?id 1330Author: Yilma Demissed Abstract: Agriculture is the heart for the less developed economies, but the supply chain management for their agricultural products is less underlined. Based on a rational critique over the available models of supply chain management and the analysis of the characteristics of agricultural products with coffee as a case, this paper develops a general model of the supply chain management for agricultural products by taking major variables into considerations Keywords: Supply Chain, Agricultural Products, Model Adaptation 1 Introduction In the past decades we have seen an increasing rate of globalization of the economy and thereby also of supply chains. Products are no longer produced and consumed within the same geographical area. Even the different parts of a product may come from all over the world. This creates longer and more complex supply chains, and therefore it also changes the requirements within supply chain management. Models for this purpose need to be dynamic because of the time correlation of upstream and downstream operations and the various uncertainties that exist in a supply-chain. Some researchers have tried to come up with different models for supply chain management with more focus on manufacturing. Hodder and Dincer 1986 studied the international plant location problem and developed a single-period model to determine the best locations, material flows and financing patterns. Their model identifies the best sourcing plan given multiple possible production sites for a product to be sold in multiple markets. Breitman and Lucas 1987 described the PLANETS model, which was developed at General Motors with a number of features considered such as tariffs, local content, balance of trade, and trade complementation. Cohen and Lee 1989 developed a mul