Key Principles of Flexible Production and Logistics Networks

Abstract

A key aspect to achieving the target of a 5-day car is the improvement of the flexibility of all physical, informational, planning and control processes in the supply network. This section of the book presents innovative flexible processes for inter-enterprise collaborative planning and execution. These processes support the industry’s need for effective and efficient collaboration of planning capacities throughout the supply network. These have been developed to overcome process-related limitations that are prevalent within the automotive industry today. Collaborative planning and execution processes span the whole integrated supply network and are capable of supporting dynamic capacity allocation based on plant-specific constraints. They enhance the capability to adjust capacity to fall within a plant’s profitable range. They also take into account the current network context and individual capacity situation in the supply network.