Complex production processes regarding the machining of parts and sub-assemblies in the automotive industry encourage suppliers to build network relationships with competing enterprises. This article attempts to analyze the disruptions occurring at the stage of delivering sub-assemblies in the automotive industry supply chain. Among the factors intensifying disruptions in the network supply chain, the author included, among others, demand fluctuations, production capacities, as well as the types of process participants responsible for the emerging disruptions.Analysis of disruptions in the chosen link of the supply chain of the automotive industry
Abstract
Folded production processes in processing of details and sub-assemblies in the automotive industry are inducing suppliers for building network relations with competing enterprises. In the article an identification and analysis of disruptions appearing at the stage of delivering sub-assemblies in the supply chain to the automotive industry were done. Amongst strengthening factors of the disruption in the network supply chain they took into account among others: instability of workforce, level of demand for product, poor communication, lack of vessel capacity and channel overload, lack of supplier manufacturing capacity. (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 4/2012