Life time buy modeling at Agilent Technologies
department or school: Business, Sauder School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Rugina, Dragomirna
issued: 2009-07-28T22:18:37Z
issued: 2001
related degree: Master of Science in Business - MScB
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: The PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Toolkit at Agilent is a decision-support system used in support of Product Lifecycle Management decisions across the supply chain. The development of the tool started 4 years ago and new features are currently added. Utilization of the tool includes product portfolio decisions, product rollovers and discontinuance, lifetime buy decisions and contract manufacturing. The manufacturing environment at Agilent is high mix, low volume and it poses several challenges. Among the unique challenges that TMO (Test and Measurement Organization) faces are long lifetime of the products and assurance of supply for products whose components have shorter lifetime than the product itself. When a part is discontinued by the supplier, it is necessary to make a life-time buy, that is to buy enough of that part so that it can be used in all the products for their lifetime (dependent demand) and ensure all support (independent demand). We call such a component a lifetime buy (LTB) part and we call the LTB process the process of buying for the lifetime of all products containing that LTB part. In the past few years, the users expressed a need to build a stand-alone lifetime buy tool, which would assist decision makers in their current operations involving excess, allocations, assurance of supply and shortages of LTB parts. The current users (planners - engineers) use the LTB tool for LTB calculations. The current LTB tool uses as input the products and computes the necessary quantities of LTB parts assuming infinite overbooking - that is, existence in unlimited supply of all the necessary LTB parts. This assumption is obviously very optimistic, and there is a need to build a tool allowing limited overbooking. In what follows, we understand by overbooking the allocation of parts to a product after one part has actually run out. The current LTB tool does not allow the users to build side constraints (lower bounds on the quantity of product to be built a…
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note: L I F E T I M E B U Y M O D E L I N G A T A G I L E N T T E C H N O L O G I E S By Dragomirna Rugina B.A. Mathematics, University of Iasi, Romania, 1988 Ph.D. Mathematics, University of South-Paris, France, 1995 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION) in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES , ~ (Facul ty\bf Commerce and Business Administration) We accept this thesis as conforming To the required standard; THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA December 2000 (§> D r a g o m i r n a R u g i n a , 2000 In presenting this thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for an advanced degree at the University of British Columbia, I agree that the Library shall make it freely available for reference and study. I further agree that permission for extensive copying of this thesis for scholarly purposes may be granted by the head of my department or by his or her representatives. It is understood that copying or publication of this thesis for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. Department of The University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada Date DE-6 (2/88) Abstract The PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Toolkit at Agilent is a decision-support system used in support of Product Lifecycle Management decisions across the supply chain. The development of the tool started 4 years ago and new features are currently added. Utilization of the tool includes product portfolio decisions, product rollovers and discontinuance, lifetime buy decisions and contract manufacturing. The manufacturing environment at Agilent is high mix, low volume and it poses several challenges. Among the unique challenges that TMO (Test and Measurement Organization) faces are long lifetime of the products and assurance of supply for products whose components have shorter lifetime than the product itself. When a part is discontinued by the supplier, it is necessary to make a life-time buy, that is to…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2001-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0089891
language: eng
degree discipline: Business Administration
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scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11439