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Tactical Planning in Flexible Production Networks in the Automotive Industry

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Operations Research Proceedings 2010

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Today)s automotive markets are characterized by high demand volatility. As a consequence, flexibility to re-allocate production volume within the production networks is required, to match the production capacity for specific models with market demand. The sustained re-allocation of models to production lines to adjust to market demand is no longer a vision, but virtually industry standard. Hence, model plant allocation decisions are no longer a one time long term decision but a more frequent mid term planning task, for which current strategic decision support models are inadequate. Modified planning models are required to handle the increased flexibility. A modeling framework will be presented.

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  1. Institute of Automotive Management and Industrial Production, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Katharinenstr. 3, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Kai Wittek, Thomas Volling & Thomas S. Spengler

  2. Volkswagen AG, Brieffach 1653, 38436, Wolfsburg, Germany

    Friedrich-Wilhelm Gundlach

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Correspondence to Kai Wittek .

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  1. , Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, Neubiberg, 85577, Bayern, Germany

    Bo Hu

  2. , Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Organisati, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, Neubiberg, 85577, Bayern, Germany

    Karl Morasch

  3. Fakultät für Informatik, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, Neubiberg, 85577, Germany

    Stefan Pickl

  4. , Fakultät für Informatik, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, Neubiberg, 85577, Bayern, Germany

    Markus Siegle

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Wittek, K., Volling, T., Spengler, T.S., Gundlach, FW. (2011). Tactical Planning in Flexible Production Networks in the Automotive Industry. In: Hu, B., Morasch, K., Pickl, S., Siegle, M. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2010. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20009-0_68

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