TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimisation of process audit plan for minimizing vehicle launch risk using MILP
AU - Rai, Bharatendra K.
AU - Nepal, Bimal
AU - Gunasekaran, Angappa
AU - Li, Yuzhu
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Suppliers play a critical role in the success of any organisation. A complex product such as an automobile often involves a large number of suppliers. The need for high supplier quality especially gets highlighted at the time when automobile manufacturers launch new vehicles. A new vehicle launch involves enormous coordination efforts among the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and suppliers distributed across the globe. In such situations, supplier audits are used for minimising associated launch risk. However, allocating limited qualified engineers to supplier plants for an audit becomes a challenging task. This research proposes a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model to allocate engineers to supplier plant locations and create an optimal audit schedule by incorporating the level of risk involved.
AB - Suppliers play a critical role in the success of any organisation. A complex product such as an automobile often involves a large number of suppliers. The need for high supplier quality especially gets highlighted at the time when automobile manufacturers launch new vehicles. A new vehicle launch involves enormous coordination efforts among the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and suppliers distributed across the globe. In such situations, supplier audits are used for minimising associated launch risk. However, allocating limited qualified engineers to supplier plants for an audit becomes a challenging task. This research proposes a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model to allocate engineers to supplier plant locations and create an optimal audit schedule by incorporating the level of risk involved.
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U2 - 10.1504/IJPM.2013.054742
DO - 10.1504/IJPM.2013.054742
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84879574450
SN - 1753-8432
VL - 6
SP - 379
EP - 393
JO - International Journal of Procurement Management
JF - International Journal of Procurement Management
IS - 4
ER -