Coordinating strategic capacity planning in the semiconductor industry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Karabuk, S; Wu, SD
• 署名单位: Lehigh University
• 刊物名称: OPERATIONS RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0030-364X
• DOI: 10.1287/opre.51.6.839.24917
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 839-849
• 关键词: facilities/equipment planning; capacity expansion : strategic capacity planning programming/stochastic : scenario analysis; recourse approximation; Production; planning : decentralized coordination

摘要

We study strategic capacity planning in the semiconductor industry. Working with a major US semiconductor manufacturer on the configuration of their worldwide production facilities, we identify two unique characteristics of this problem as follows: (1) wafer demands and manufacturing capacity are both main sources of uncertainty, and (2) capacity planning must consider the distinct viewpoints from marketing and manufacturing. We formulate a multi-stage stochastic program with demand and capacity uncertainties. To reconcile the marketing and manufacturing perspectives, we consider a decomposition of the planning problem resembling decentralized decision-making. We develop recource approximation schemes representing different decentralization schemes, which vary in information requirements and complexity. We show that it is possible to arrive at near optimal solutions (within 6.5%) with information decentralization while using a fraction (16.2%) of the computer time.