Dear researchers,
I am working on the method for quick operationalisation of manufacturer procurement goals (that usually could be found in "call-for-tenders" document) using knowledge about available processes of suppliers. The final aim is to reduce the time needed to start tender execution from months to days, that is good aligned with the Industry 4.0 vision in the aerospace.
On the one side I have a tree-structure of the main goal (e.g. in the form of Bill of Materials), on the other side - the available process steps (activities) that could reach some of smaller sub-goals. There are {fit, flow, shared resource} dependencies between activities belonging to different suppliers and I am striving to resolve them comparing several approaches, e.g. using constraints satisfaction solver (Norman et al., 2006).
I will much appreciate any thougths and suggestions regarding this issue.
Thank you in advance
Nikolai
I suggest your model should connect sales demand with procurement goals. Just a thought.
John, thank you for your idea! In my case sales demand = procurement goal, what is later decomposed to sub -goals. In order to reach those sub-goals we need to align several supplier processes, that have dependencies between themselves: fit, flow and shared resource (Malone, 1999) . When these dependencies are resolved we get the workflow to execute. So the key issue is how to resolve such process constaints.
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