A Study on Design and Operations Management of Global Production-Logistics Systems

在本项目中，基于对最近商业环境结构变化的认识，如生产活动的全球化，市场上的品种多样化和更短的交货时间，以及对全球生产物流系统相关研究的认识，本文主要从以下两个方面研究了制造企业全球生产物流系统管理的框架和方法2）如何有效地运行导出的最佳全球生产物流系统。即，第一个课题是生产基地分配问题，以有效地应对需求，并于1997年对制造和物流相关企业进行了调查，并进行了研究/数据调查。在此基础上，研究了全球生产物流网络的设计模型，并开发了相应的生产场地优化配置和内部物流网络的设计程序。利用LINGO非线性数学规划软件包和WITNESS产品对系统进行了特性分析，在各种真实的商业环境中进行了物流模拟器和所提出的系统的可行性研究。这些活动的结果发表在一些适当的学术期刊和会议上。延迟提交本最终项目报告的原因如下：1）由于国际期刊和会议记录中包含的相关文章的版权使用确认程序耗时。2）由于重要的会议日程，一些相关结果计划发表。

In this project, based on the recognition of the recent structural change of business environment such as globalisation of production activity, variety diversification with shorter lead time in the market, and recognition of the related past researches on global production-logistics systems, framework and method of global production-logistics system management for manufacturing firms were investigated in terms of studying the following two sub-topics.1) How to design the global production-logistics network system for multiple production sites and multi market business environment.2) How to operate derived optimal global production-logistics system effectively.Namely, first topic includes production site allocation problem for effective capability for coping with demands and, in 1997, survey of manufacturing and logistics concerned firms as well as research/data survey were carried out. Standing on these results, design models for global production-logistics network were considered and a relevant design procedure was developed for optimal production site allocation and intra-logistics network.In 1998, examination of operation procedure for the derived system, characteristics analysis of the system by using LINGO non-linear mathematical programming package and WITNESS production-logistics simulator and feasibility study of the proposed system in various real business environment were performed. The results of these activities were published in some appropriate academic journals and conferences.The reasons of delayed submission of this final project report are as follows.1) Due to time consuming confirmation procedure to use copyright of the related articles that were included in international journals and conference proceedings.2) Due to major conference schedules where some relevant results were planned to publish.