TY - JOUR
T1 - How automobile parts supply network structures may reflect the diversity of product characteristics and suppliers' production strategies
AU - Kito, Tomomi
AU - New, Steve
AU - Ueda, Kanji
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by The Saïd Business School Foundation Strategic Development Fund , and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 26870151 and 26240046 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 CIRP.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This study quantitatively investigates the heterogeneous nature of the structures and characteristics of real-life auto-parts supply networks, through complex network analysis of large-scale empirical data. Comprehensive data containing "who-supplies-what-to-whom" information successfully highlights the wide diversity of product characteristics, companies' production capabilities, and also their resulting strategies. Furthermore, by using an advanced complex network analysis technique, the supply networks are projected into a different information space, generating another network that elucidates the proximities between product types and between companies' production strategies. Analysis of this network provides profound insights into how supply network structures may emerge reflecting various factors.
AB - This study quantitatively investigates the heterogeneous nature of the structures and characteristics of real-life auto-parts supply networks, through complex network analysis of large-scale empirical data. Comprehensive data containing "who-supplies-what-to-whom" information successfully highlights the wide diversity of product characteristics, companies' production capabilities, and also their resulting strategies. Furthermore, by using an advanced complex network analysis technique, the supply networks are projected into a different information space, generating another network that elucidates the proximities between product types and between companies' production strategies. Analysis of this network provides profound insights into how supply network structures may emerge reflecting various factors.
KW - Complexity
KW - Heterogeneity
KW - Product
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cirp.2015.04.117
DO - 10.1016/j.cirp.2015.04.117
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84933672265
SN - 0007-8506
VL - 64
SP - 423
EP - 426
JO - CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology
JF - CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology
IS - 1
ER -