Global Production and Supply System of the Automobile Manufactures

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the global production and supply network of the automobile manufacturers and formulate a car carrier ship routing problem into the mathematical programming problem. At first, we describe an example of the production and supply network of the automobile manufacturers and clarify the critical performance measures briefly. Next, we will formulate the car carrier ship routing problem so called the mixed-loading transshipment method in the form of a mathematical programming problem and propose a way for determining the transportation route and quantity by evaluating two kinds of objective functions: (1) the total transportation lead-time and (2) the maximum flow of the final products.