PPC Task Plan Sourcing - Synchronization of Procurement and Production. A Model-based Observation

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As companies continue to globalise, manufacturers face the challenge of strategically adjusting their vertical integration and restructuring production and supply chains. This leads manufacturers to increasingly pursue two strategies of restructuring. On the one hand, in the form of outsourcing value-adding activities, the focus is being placed on the core competencies of the company's own production. As a result, the vertical range of manufacture within the company is decreasing, while outsourcing is becoming more and more important. On the other hand, companies are also pursuing the strategy of least possible dependency to secure production through regional procurement of resources and expansion of the necessary competencies by means of increased vertical integration. In order to understand the consequences and effects of these changes at the level of production planning and control (PPC), a model-based view is necessary for an expanded understanding of the processual context of these changes. The PPC is the essential steering instance of production. It combines long-term tasks, e.g. Plan Sales or Roughly Plan Resources, with short-term tasks, e.g. Schedule Throughput or Plan Resources in detail. The main PPC task, Plan Sourcing, is an essential link with its tasks and procedures between the core processes of procurement and production in the company's internal supply chain. In the context of this paper, the PPC main task Plan Sourcing is to be considered in a model-based manner, which focuses on the selection and connection of suppliers as well as the general view of the supplier management of manufacturers. For this purpose, the effect on the PPC and the production logistic objectives variables is presented by means of the consideration of the tasks and possible procedures for the fulfilment of these PPC tasks. Utilising collected findings, a process-related derivation for the synchronisation of the affected areas of procurement and production is presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConference on Production Systems and Logistics : International Conference, CPSL 2022, hosted at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, 17th May 2022 – 20th May 2022, Proceedings
EditorsDavid Herberger, Marco Hübner
Number of pages10
Place of PublicationOffenburg
Publisherpublish-Ing.
Publication date2022
Pages287-296
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Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event3rd Conference on Production Systems and Logistics - CPSL 2022 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 17.05.202220.05.2022
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Funding Information:
The project “Systematic analysis of the effect of production planning and control processes on logistical objectives” leading to this paper is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – 434659386.

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    Research areas

  • Engineering - Machine learning, procurement, synchronization, modelling, production planning and control, PPC, sourcing

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