Emergence of Industry 4.0

**Chapter 13**

*Suthep Butdee*

improvement for all.

**1. Introduction**

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**Abstract**

Automotive Industrial Supply

Chain Performance Evaluation

under Uncertain Constraints on

Performance evaluation is a critical and complex task as well as uncertain demands for automotive supply chain. Several methods are applied and adopted to deal with current situations and maintain competitiveness such as fuzzy logic, neuro fuzzy, agent (multi) based evaluation, etc. However, such systems are not rapid enough to respond customer requirements by real-time on mobile cloud computing system. There are many companies that operate under the first tier company as subcontractors on the same goal. Cloud computing system is capable to monitor real-time production processes for every subcontractor to assist the 1st tier to make decision and respond customer effectively. Daily monitoring data of all subcontractors in the supply chain are stored in the central database and finally the performance evaluation can be done. The implication is cost reduction of the whole

supply chain and increase competitiveness as well as continuous process

**Keywords:** performance evaluation, automotive supply chain, uncertain

Supply chain management is emphasized on delivery parts on demands both regular, irregular, and uncertain circumstances. Inventory management is a critical aspect of management. There are four elements of inventory; raw materials, work in process (WIP), finished goods, and spare parts. The raw materials are components, subassemblies, or material that are purchased from outside the factory and used in the fabrication or assembly processes inside the factory. The WIP includes all finished parts or products that have been released to a production line. The finished good is final products or parts that are kept in the warehouse waiting to ship to customers by purchasing orders. Spare parts are standard components they bought from suppliers to maintain or repair production equipment. In automotive industry, a subcontractor is used as a major player in supply chain manufacturing cluster. The subcontractor is normally SME companies which makes contract for long period of time. Mostly, the subcontractor is sighed the contract according to the specific parts. However, the parts can be done by several contracts in order to

constraints, neuro fuzzy system, CPOM system

Cloud Computing System
