TY - GEN
T1 - A simulation study of logistics and manufacturing activities in an automobile supply chain
AU - Moghadam, Maziar Gholamian
AU - Karimi, Behrooz
AU - Darayi, Mohamad
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - This article studies an application of discrete-event simulation (DES) combined with multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to study manufacturing procedure integrated with logistics activities in an automotive supply chain. Automotive Industries Development Pressed Components Company (AIDCO PRESS) as an important supplier is linked to IRANKHODRO CO, a distinguished automobile company at Iran, by a web based inventory management system implementing Kanban philosophy. AIDCO PRESS's inefficiencies in responsiveness to the received Kanabns from IRANKHODRO CO endanger the automotive supply chain's agility, and also threaten its future role as a reliable supplier. DES modeling approach is used to analyze such a complex system in order to determine the causes of lateness in receiving the requested parts by IRANKHODRO CO. Consulting with the executive and plant managers, improvement scenarios are defined in order to obviate the inefficiencies' origins, and then MCDA methodology considering responsiveness, cost and utility criterions is pursued to find the best scenario. Collectivity of the studied problem together with the reality nature of the case distinguishes this paper from the decision analysis studies in the automotive supply chain literature.
AB - This article studies an application of discrete-event simulation (DES) combined with multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to study manufacturing procedure integrated with logistics activities in an automotive supply chain. Automotive Industries Development Pressed Components Company (AIDCO PRESS) as an important supplier is linked to IRANKHODRO CO, a distinguished automobile company at Iran, by a web based inventory management system implementing Kanban philosophy. AIDCO PRESS's inefficiencies in responsiveness to the received Kanabns from IRANKHODRO CO endanger the automotive supply chain's agility, and also threaten its future role as a reliable supplier. DES modeling approach is used to analyze such a complex system in order to determine the causes of lateness in receiving the requested parts by IRANKHODRO CO. Consulting with the executive and plant managers, improvement scenarios are defined in order to obviate the inefficiencies' origins, and then MCDA methodology considering responsiveness, cost and utility criterions is pursued to find the best scenario. Collectivity of the studied problem together with the reality nature of the case distinguishes this paper from the decision analysis studies in the automotive supply chain literature.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84886925714
SN - 9781627486835
T3 - 41st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering 2011
SP - 74
EP - 79
BT - 41st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering 2011
T2 - 41st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering 2011
Y2 - 23 October 2011 through 25 October 2011
ER -