This master thesis aims at investigating the role of inter-connections among companies in a supply chain on lean improvement projects. In particular, it searches for i) distribution of benefits (or disadvantages) across the supply chain when one of its members adopts some lean tools, and ii) the existence of synergies among members that can increase the benefit brought by these policies. A simple, multi-product 3-echelons linear supply chain model (with stochastic demand and deterministic lead times) is built and simulated with the use of SimPy, a discrete event simulation library for Python. The lean technique simulated is the concurrent setup time and lot size reduction. Two sets of experiments are run. No evidence of i) is found, while ii) is instead shown to be present. The synergies found regard mainly two metrics, mean lead time and mean inventory, and they are modest (between 0.9% and 4.2% extra, for the second and third additional stage, respectively).
L’obiettivo di questa tesi è investigare il ruolo delle interconnessioni tra aziende di una filiera sui progetti di miglioramento lean. In particolare, si ricercano i) una distribuzione di benefici (o svantaggi) attraverso la filiera quando uno dei suoi membri adotta degli strumenti lean, e ii) l’esistenza di sinergie tra attori che possano incrementare i benefici portati da queste tecniche. Viene costruito un semplice modello di una filiera lineare multi-prodotto di 3 stadi (con domanda aleatoria e tempi deterministici), poi simulato con SimPy, una libreria per la simulazione ad eventi discreti per Python. Gli strumenti lean testati sono la riduzione del tempo di setup e della dimensione del lotto. Due set di esperimenti vengono fatti. Non si trova nessuna prova di i), mentre ii) è dimostrato essere presente. Le sinergie trovate riguardano principalmente due metriche, il tempo di attraversamento medio e il livello medio di scorte, e sono modeste (tra lo 0,9% e 4,2% in più per il secondo e terzo stadio aggiuntivo, rispettivamente).
Operating synergies and criticalities in a lean supply chain : an exploratory simulation study
PARISSENTI, MASSIMILIANO
2017/2018
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This master thesis aims at investigating the role of inter-connections among companies in a supply chain on lean improvement projects. In particular, it searches for i) distribution of benefits (or disadvantages) across the supply chain when one of its members adopts some lean tools, and ii) the existence of synergies among members that can increase the benefit brought by these policies. A simple, multi-product 3-echelons linear supply chain model (with stochastic demand and deterministic lead times) is built and simulated with the use of SimPy, a discrete event simulation library for Python. The lean technique simulated is the concurrent setup time and lot size reduction. Two sets of experiments are run. No evidence of i) is found, while ii) is instead shown to be present. The synergies found regard mainly two metrics, mean lead time and mean inventory, and they are modest (between 0.9% and 4.2% extra, for the second and third additional stage, respectively).| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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