Logistics of a completely knocked down automobile assembly plant

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Larissa Diniz
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Menegon, Nilton Luiz, Costa, Miguel A. Bueno da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Produção Online
• Texto Completo: https://www.producaoonline.org.br/rpo/article/view/2738
• topic: CKD system. Supply chain. Operational logics. Strategy. Auto industry.; Sistema CKD. Cadeia de suprimentos. Lógicas operacionais. Estratégia. Indústria automobilística.

This work analyzes the supply chain of an automobile assembly plant operating under Completely Knocked Down (CKD). The objective is to present and discuss the operational constraints that this supply chain produces on the production operations of the referred automaker. The research, which was conducted through a case study, considered the chain from the importation request of pieces until the distribution of the assembled cars. A series of constraints that directly affected the assembler’s logistics operations were observed. These constraints have their origin in three operational logics: the Emitter's Logic, the Recipient’s Logic and the Distribution’s Logic. The conflicts between those logics have been identified, which interfere with the operations and physical limits of the assembler. This research introduced a new perspective o CKD system analysis.