PRODUCTION CHAIN: NETWORK VISION AND NETWORK DECISION AND MANAGEMENT FACTORS.

Abstract

The increasingly globalized market has demanded from companies a greater flexibility and the adoption of innovative instruments in Supply Chain Management, especially in the management of relationships between the actors involved. Customer-supplier relationships have undergone profound changes in pattern, due to new trends imposed by world markets. The scope of customer-supplier relationships is expanding, giving rise to other more advanced theories, such as cooperation networks, in which suppliers of suppliers and customers of customers also participate. On the one hand, companies are implementing plans to reduce human labor in their decision-making process and replace them with machines, as maintenance costs are cheap. On the other hand, companies do not argue before the human person, who has the right to work, free choice of work, fair and satisfactory working conditions, and protection against unemployment. The methodology adopted for the development of this work is the exploratory descriptive, which is based on works and documents that exist on the subject. We conclude that there is a need to create synergies. In the decision-making process, companies must look at all aspects inherent to the productivity chain and network management.