Towards integrated optimal configuration of platform products, manufacturing processes, and supply chains

摘要

To design effective supply chain systems to integrate platform product decisions. The study uses the concept of generic bills of materials (GBOM) of a product family as a unified framework to qualitatively capture and represent the structure of its supply chain. It is then enhanced by a mathematical model to quantify the relationships among the different design decisions. For an efficient solution of the mathematical model, the study proposes a heuristic method using GA. The results are used to investigate the mutual impact between design decisions of platform products in the supply chain through sensitivity analyses. (41 refs.)