Strategic Planning of Global Changeable Production Networks

Abstract

By focusing on core competencies and the utilization of international location advantages such as access to low-wage labor and local sales markets, global production networks are becoming increasingly complex. The key for control is a changeable production network that can change within preconceived solution spaces for the dynamic challenges. The presented article describes an approach for the strategic planning of global changeable production networks, based on future scenarios and a multi-objective optimization to identify the most favorable network configuration. The final result is a production network, which can be changed into network alternatives to control dynamics and positively utilize globalization.