Supply chain planning at Philips Lighting Lumileds: A design and implementation of a stock control model to balance customer service and stock levels in an end to end environment to improve product availability.

Supply chain planning at Philips Lighting Lumileds: A design and implementation of a stock control model to balance customer service and stock levels in an end to end environment to improve product availability.

Hartevelt, R.

Van Duin, J.H.R. (mentor)
Van der Voort, H.G. (mentor)
Talsma, J.A. (mentor)
Rulkens, H. (mentor)
Tavasszy, L. (mentor)

Technology, Policy and Management

Infrastructure Systems & Services

Transport and logistics

2011-04-14

Improving service level at the lowest possible costs is and will always be one of the key objectives of Philips Electronics. This research illustrates how a part of the Philips supply chain control is setup /designed to support this objective. Within Philips, the business unit called Lumileds supplies LED’s to its customers. One of the components used to manufacture LED’s is made at the component manufacturer that is subject to this thesis. The objective of improving service levels at the lowest possible cost can be enabled by supply chain control. Of course superior service levels can be realized with excessive inventory levels. However that ignores the objective of lowest costs, because inventory cost money. Therefore an optimal balance between service level and inventory must be achieved. This balance depends on a number of different drivers like lead-time, lead-time variability, manufacturing quality and demand pattern. This research will define a model that generates advice to achieve the desired balance, taking into account all relevant drivers.

Supply chain design
Replenishment strategy
Process control
Process implementation

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2488b077-d5ac-4684-9333-ebf1d63ac80b

2011-04-14

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2011 Hartevelt, R.