Mutual impacts of product standardization and supply chain design

作     者：Baud-Lavigne, Bertrand Agard, Bruno Penz, Bernard 

作者机构：Ecole Polytech CIRRELT Dept Math & Genie Ind Montreal PQ H3C 3A7 Canada Univ Grenoble G SCOP CNRS F-38031 Grenoble 1 France 

出 版 物：《INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS》 (国际生产经济学杂志)

年 卷 期：2012年第135卷第1期

页      面：50-60页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 08[工学] 0802[工学-机械工程] 

主　　题：Supply chain design Product standardization Relocation cost Mixed integer linear programming 

摘      要：This paper deals with two major issues for industries: the product design and the supply chain design. These problems are usually solved separately, but in recent years, approaches were proposed to tackle these two problems together. In this paper, we investigate more precisely the links between the standardization of products or components, and the design of the supply chain. First, we show on a little example that there is a great interest to consider simultaneously these two decisions, and that solving these interdependent problems separately could result in a suboptimal, or even a bad, decision. Then, on a simplified problem issued from an industrial case study, we outline the impact of standardization choices on the structure of the supply chain and the gain that can be obtained from solving the problem as a unique compound optimization model. To illustrate the solutions of the problem, we propose graphics in order to visualize, in function of quantities and/or transportation costs, the hest decision for the product standardization and for the supply chain design. Graphics also permit to anticipate the impacts of a variation of either quantities or transportation costs, from a specific situation. Such graphics they could be used in a decision aid tool to help companies in their choices. Finally, we show that costs and supply chain structure are highly impacted. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.