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

本项目在认识到生产活动全球化、品种多样化、市场交货期缩短等商业环境的结构性变化，以及对全球生产物流系统相关研究的认识的基础上，围绕以下两个子课题展开研究：1)如何设计多生产基地、多市场经营环境下的全球生产物流网络系统；2)如何有效运作衍生出的最优全球生产物流系统。第一个主题包括有效应对需求能力的生产选址问题和1997年的对与制造和物流有关的公司进行了调查，并进行了研究/数据调查。在此基础上，考虑了全球生产物流网络的设计模型，提出了相应的优化生产场地配置和内部物流网络的设计方法。1998年，对衍生系统的运作流程进行了检验，利用LINGO非线性数学规划软件和WITHINE生产物流模拟器对系统进行了特性分析，并对所提出的系统在不同实际商业环境下的可行性进行了研究。这些活动的成果发表在一些适当的学术期刊和会议上。延迟提交本项目最终报告的原因如下：1)由于国际期刊和会议过程中相关文章的版权使用确认程序耗时；2)由于计划发表一些相关成果的重大会议日程，导致延迟提交。

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.