Concurrent Decision-Making of Product Architecture and Supply Chain Configuration

Abstract:

The product architecture at early product design stagte has important effects on product design, and supply chain design decision. Considering the mutual effects between product architecture and supply chian design, this paper proposed an improved current decision-making method for product architecture and supply chain configuration. Taking use of an improved product architecture model expression GBOM, we establish mixed integer programming model to optimize the supply chain configuration, which can concurrently determine the product architecture and supply chain configuration, as well as get minimized the total supply chain cost. The numeric example shows that the proposed method is valid.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 915-916)
• Pages: 1518-1527
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.915-916.1518
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: Jie Chen*, Yue Huang
• Keywords: Concurrent Decision-Making, Mixed Integer Programming, Product Architecture, Supply Chain Configuration

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