Seed Industry Supply Chain Operations Research

Seed is not only the most fundamental and important agricultural capital goods but a significant carrier of agricultural science and technology. Seed industry is the most important basis for the modern agricultural industry. Seed industry includes the whole process from genetic selection, seed production, seed processing, seed packaging, seed storage, seed transportation to seed distribution.Most papers researched on seed industry from the view of seed industrial chain or from the view of seed enterprises, the dissertation researched on seed industry from the view of seed industry supply chain, which also considered the fact in China. As a result, the dissertation brought forward a new operating mode in favor of seed industry. The dissertation summarized the researches on seed industry. In order to give some new view of seed industry to promote its development, the dissertation used system theory, control theory and electronic business theory to study on the problem.All the studies were all based on the four-dimensional structured model of seed industry supply chain.The author has made qualitative and quantitative research on the main issues of the operating of seed industry supply chain. The dissertation has discussed the following issues:Chapter 2:The structural model of seed industry supply chain, according to the characteristics of seed industry supply chain, a four-dimensional structural model was established which was based on the previous studied results. In this chapter, the author not only researched on the construction, analysis methods, but also described the stategy of the model with examples. The author built four-dimensional structural model as the research framework for the following chapters.Chapter 3:The operating mode of seed industry supply chain, the dissertation analyzed the existing operating mode in China. The author used the fuzzy multi-level hierarchical large-scale system theory, brought forward a new operating mode:the operating mode based on fuzzy multi-level hierarchical large-scale system.Chapter 4:The management&control of seed industry supply chain coordination decision-making level. The author gave a brief description of performance evaluation of the SCOR model. And then the operating ability of seed industry supply chain was measured by use of the qualitative fuzzy comprehensive evaluation. The dissertation also discussed how to management seed industry supply chain risks using of no model self-adaptive control theory.Chapter 5:The self-adaptive control of middle level based on seed customers' demand pulling and R&D pushing. In this chapter, some basis models were introduced:the driven mode of SC, the customer life cycle model and the self-adaptive control model. On the base of these three models, the dissertation put forward the driven mode of seed industry supply chain. The driven mode was the driven mode based on seed customers'demand pulling and R&D pushing. At last, the dissertation researched on the parameters identification, parameters prediction and the middle level of SC coordination management.Chapter 6:The management&control of seed industry supply chain operating level. In this chapter, the dissertation researched on the subsystem of seed industry supply chain respectively. These subsystems are:the seed R&D system, the seed production and processing system and the seed distribution system.Chapter 7:The information integration of seed industry supply chain, firstly, the dissertation analyzed the relationship between the operating and the information integration of seed industry supply chain. Secondly, the author studied the characteristics of seed customers in China and their information demands by using of AHP and empirical research etc. Thirdly, the author studied on the measure of information integration ablity of seed industry supply chain.The author analyzed the environment of seed industry supply chain information integration and gave some methods of the problem.The main innovations of the dissertation are as follows:1. Four-dimensional structured model of seed industry supply chainThe author constructed four-dimensional structured model of seed industry supply chain on which was the base of seed industry supply chain operating mode. The model made the research object exited in a controlled and easy descriptive environment. There were three-dimensional:the main body, the object and processes. The author added the forth dimensional that is the degree of SC operating. The author not only considered the common characteristics but considered the specific characteristics of the seed industry.2. The operating mode based on fuzzy multi-level hierarchical large-scale system and its management&controlThe dissertation presented the operating mode of seed industry supply chain based on fuzzy multi-level hierarchical large-scale system. And the author gave deep research on the three levels of the mode. The proposal model not only optimized the seed industry coordination operation, but played a guiding role in the operation as a means of control. The study result provided a simple and practical tool for the integration implementation of seed industry supply chain in China.3. The information integration method of seed industry supply chainThe end customers of seed industry supply chain in China were unique. The author used of customer relationship management theories and used of PRA evaluation method and fuzzy comprehensive method made the qualitative indicators into quantitative indicators. The author measured the information integration ablity of seed industry supply chain.