Supply Chain Planning for modular production concepts in process industries - Development and analysis of planning models for decision support

由于个性化产品、缩短产品生命周期和模块化生产技术等技术发展等新挑战，过程工业面临着范式转变，这必须得到适当规划的支持。本研究项目分析了在过程工业中利用模块化生产概念的经济方面。该项目的目的是在模块化生产概念的背景下，为供应链规划开发一个整体的分层规划系统，以促进这种创新技术的经济优势发展。首先，在潜在评估中确定供应链规划的需求和市场结构的可能改进。通过开发创新的数学优化模型，将规划系统及其战略战术规划模块具体化。这些是未来规划工具的基础，这些工具可以通过所提出的模型和方法的专门化而派生出来。大规模规划模型的创新特征归功于灵活性的程度，以及对能力、过程、生产和地点及其动态和不确定性的综合考虑。开发了创新的算法方法，并用于在合理的时间内求解复杂的数学优化模型。通过分析整合到规划模型中的技术实现和市场结构的不同场景，可以推导出模块化生产概念技术设计的经济需求。

Due to new challenges such as individualized products, shortened product life cycles and technological developments such as modular production technologies, the process industry faces a paradigm shift, which has to be supported by appropriate planning. This research project analyzes economic aspects of utilizing modular production concepts in the process industry. The aim of the project is the development of a holistic hierarchical planning system for supply chain planning in the context of modular production concepts, in order to promote an economically advantageous development of this innovative technology. First, requirements for supply chain planning and the possible refinements of the market structure are determined in a potential assessment. The planning system with its strategic and tactical planning modules is concretized by developing innovative mathematical optimization models. Those are the basis for future planning tools which can be derived by specialization of the presented models and methods. The innovative character of the large-scale planning models is attributed to the degree of flexibility as well as to the integrated consideration of capacities, processes, production and locations with their dynamics and uncertainties. Innovative algorithmic methods are developed and used to solve complex mathematical optimization models in reasonable time. By analyzing different scenarios regarding the realization of technology and market structure, which are integrated into the planning models, it is possible to derive economical requirements for the technological design of modular production concepts.