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_id: '576'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Due to a high level of competition in automotive industry, it is essentially
    important for automotive companies to develop innovative strategies and technologies
    in production and logistics. Postponement of production difference, i.e., customer
    individualized demand has been considered as an innovative strategy and more or
    less implemented in the production process, mostly before and during the final
    assembly. This paper proposed the concept of postponing the individualization
    of some components after the assembly. The idea is to use the idle times especially
    during the distribution process when vehicles are accumulated to generate big
    transportation batches or the follow-up transport does not start immediately.
    The individualization is carried out in specially realized workshops. Objectives
    of the approach are to reduce variations in the manufacturing, to shorten delivery
    times and to give consumers the ability to reorder individual components shortly
    before delivery. This kind of postponement of individualization induces the requirement
    of redesigning the logistics network, which means the selection of workshop locations
    and the new selection of the suppliers for the individualized components. To reach
    this aim, a software tool has been developed. In the tool, the data required in
    the logistics network such as suppliers and workshop potential locations are managed
    in a MySQL database and the optimization of the network is achieved by the especiallydeveloped
    non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (NSGA-II). The design and development
    of the solution individuals and the fitness functions, which are the most important
    elements of a genetic algorithm, are based on the mathematical model of the logistics
    network design with product late individualization. Different scenarios are considered
    and generated to examine the applicability of the methodology in automotive practice.
    The optimization model and the heuristics of genetic algorithm are validated through
    the Pareto solutions for different scenarios.
author:
- first_name: Li
  full_name: Li, Li
  id: '58482'
  last_name: Li
citation:
  ama: 'Li L. Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late Product Individualization.
    In: Padoano E, Villmer F-J, Department of Production Engineering and Management,
    eds. <i>Production Engineering and Management</i>. Publication series in direct
    digital manufacturing . Lemgo; 2017:139-150.'
  apa: Li, L. (2017). Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late Product
    Individualization. In E. Padoano, F.-J. Villmer, &#38; Department of Production
    Engineering and Management (Eds.), <i>Production Engineering and Management</i>
    (pp. 139–150). Lemgo.
  bjps: <b>Li L</b> (2017) Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late
    Product Individualization. In Padoano E, Villmer F-J and Department of Production
    Engineering and Management (eds), <i>Production Engineering and Management</i>.
    Lemgo, pp. 139–150.
  chicago: Li, Li. “Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late Product
    Individualization.” In <i>Production Engineering and Management</i>, edited by
    Elio Padoano, Franz-Josef Villmer, and Department of Production Engineering and
    Management, 139–50. Publication Series in Direct Digital Manufacturing . Lemgo,
    2017.
  chicago-de: 'Li, Li. 2017. Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late
    Product Individualization. In: <i>Production Engineering and Management</i>, hg.
    von Elio Padoano, Franz-Josef Villmer, und Department of Production Engineering
    and Management, 139–150. Publication series in direct digital manufacturing .
    Lemgo.'
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Li, Li</span>: Optimization
    of Automotive Logistics Network with Late Product Individualization. In: <span
    style="font-variant:small-caps;">Padoano, E.</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Villmer,
    F.-J.</span> ; <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Department of Production
    Engineering and Management</span> (Hrsg.): <i>Production Engineering and Management</i>,
    <i>Publication series in direct digital manufacturing </i>. Lemgo, 2017, S. 139–150'
  havard: 'L. Li, Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late Product Individualization,
    in: E. Padoano, F.-J. Villmer, Department of Production Engineering and Management
    (Eds.), Production Engineering and Management, Lemgo, 2017: pp. 139–150.'
  ieee: L. Li, “Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late Product Individualization,”
    in <i>Production Engineering and Management</i>, Pordenone, Italy, 2017, no. 1,
    pp. 139–150.
  mla: Li, Li. “Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late Product Individualization.”
    <i>Production Engineering and Management</i>, edited by Elio Padoano et al., no.
    1, 2017, pp. 139–50.
  short: 'L. Li, in: E. Padoano, F.-J. Villmer, Department of Production Engineering
    and Management (Eds.), Production Engineering and Management, Lemgo, 2017, pp.
    139–150.'
  ufg: '<b>Li, Li (2017)</b>: Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late
    Product Individualization, in: Elio Padoano et. al. (Hgg.): <i>Production Engineering
    and Management</i> (=<i>Publication series in direct digital manufacturing </i>),
    Lemgo, S. 139–150.'
  van: 'Li L. Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late Product Individualization.
    In: Padoano E, Villmer F-J, Department of Production Engineering and Management,
    editors. Production Engineering and Management. Lemgo; 2017. p. 139–50. (Publication
    series in direct digital manufacturing ).'
conference:
  end_date: 2017-09-29
  location: Pordenone, Italy
  name: Proceedings7th International Conference
  start_date: 2017-09-28
corporate_editor:
- Department of Production Engineering and Management
- Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe
date_created: 2019-02-18T11:16:07Z
date_updated: 2023-03-15T13:50:01Z
department:
- _id: DEP7000
- _id: DEP1306
editor:
- first_name: Elio
  full_name: Padoano, Elio
  last_name: Padoano
- first_name: Franz-Josef
  full_name: Villmer, Franz-Josef
  last_name: Villmer
issue: '1'
keyword:
- Automotive industry
- Logistics network configuration
- Late product individualization
- Postponement
- NSGGA
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://www.hs-owl.de/fileadmin/diman/Veroeffentlichungen/PEM_2017_Proceeding_web.pdf
oa: '1'
page: 139-150
place: Lemgo
publication: Production Engineering and Management
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-3-946856-01-6
publication_status: published
related_material:
  link:
  - relation: contains
    url: https://www.hs-owl.de/fileadmin/diman/Veroeffentlichungen/PEM_2017_Proceeding_web.pdf
series_title: 'Publication series in direct digital manufacturing '
status: public
title: Optimization of Automotive Logistics Network with Late Product Individualization
type: conference
user_id: '45673'
year: 2017
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