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Production and Capacity Utilization Strategies in Supply Chains for Complex Engineered Products

Sinha and Ananth Krishnamurthy
Journal Name
Production and Operations Management
Journal Publication
Financial Times 50
others
UT Dallas 24
Publication Year
2020
Journal Publications Functional Area
Decision Sciences and Information Systems
Publication Date
Vol. 29, No. 2,February 2020, Pg. 462-480
Abstract

We analyze production and capacity utilization strategies in a supply chain where individual components can be made either at a shared in-house manufacturing facility or at dedicated facilities of external subcontractors. The manufacturer and the subcontractor differ in terms of costs, production capacities, rates, and service level capabilities. Using Markov decision process models, we determine the optimal policy and characterize its structure. We derive the set of conditions that partitions the state space into regions and characterize optimal policies in each region. We derive optimal policies for manufacturer and subcontractors under different settings and show that the optimal policy has a multi-index structure in some settings.

Production and Capacity Utilization Strategies in Supply Chains for Complex Engineered Products

Author(s) Name: Sinha and Ananth Krishnamurthy
Journal Name: Production and Operations Management
Volume: Vol. 29, No. 2,February 2020, Pg. 462-480
Year of Publication: 2020
Abstract:

We analyze production and capacity utilization strategies in a supply chain where individual components can be made either at a shared in-house manufacturing facility or at dedicated facilities of external subcontractors. The manufacturer and the subcontractor differ in terms of costs, production capacities, rates, and service level capabilities. Using Markov decision process models, we determine the optimal policy and characterize its structure. We derive the set of conditions that partitions the state space into regions and characterize optimal policies in each region. We derive optimal policies for manufacturer and subcontractors under different settings and show that the optimal policy has a multi-index structure in some settings.