Tactical Planning in Flexible Production Networks in the Automotive Industry

Kai Wittek (), Thomas Volling (), Thomas S. Spengler () and Friedrich-Wilhelm Gundlach ()
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Kai Wittek: Technische Universität Braunschweig
Thomas Volling: Technische Universität Braunschweig
Thomas S. Spengler: Technische Universität Braunschweig
Friedrich-Wilhelm Gundlach: Volkswagen AG

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2010, 2011, pp 429-434 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Today)s automotive markets are characterized by high demand volatility. As a consequence, flexibility to re-allocate production volume within the production networks is required, to match the production capacity for specific models with market demand. The sustained re-allocation of models to production lines to adjust to market demand is no longer a vision, but virtually industry standard. Hence, model plant allocation decisions are no longer a one time long term decision but a more frequent mid term planning task, for which current strategic decision support models are inadequate. Modified planning models are required to handle the increased flexibility. A modeling framework will be presented.

Keywords: Automotive Industry; Mixed Integer Linear Programming; Production Network; Tactical Planning; Supply Chain Planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20009-0_68

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