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Papers by Maria Caridi

Production Planning Control, 2001

ABSTRACT The competitive playground where nowadays firms struggle to survive has rapidly become u... more ABSTRACT The competitive playground where nowadays firms struggle to survive has rapidly become unforeseeable: product life cycle has shrunk, becoming even shorter than in the past, and world-wide market is suffering for a strong customer differentiation which led to an increasingly wide product mix. In this industrial environment, the engineering change process is getting more and more attention throughout the branches of industry, as it appears as a critical process which seeps into the operations management core, thus influencing the overall firm's performances. A brief state-of-the-art in the area of engineering change is firstly presented. Then a proposal of classification and a new methodology for an effective engineering change process management are suggested. The new proposed methodology has been successfully applied to a real-life manufacturing system and the related case study is reported at the end of the paper.

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Production Planning and Control

Global Fashion Management Conference, 2015

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 2002

Global Production Management, 1999

This paper focuses on the evolution of planning systems in the recent years. In particular it dea... more This paper focuses on the evolution of planning systems in the recent years. In particular it deals with APS (Advanced Planning Systems), showing which limitations of traditional information systems for production planning APS overcome and highlighting their technical potential.

Global Production Management, 1999

This paper presents a multi-agent model, ECAS, for sequencing a mixed-model assembly line. ECAS i... more This paper presents a multi-agent model, ECAS, for sequencing a mixed-model assembly line. ECAS implements the concept of deliberative and co-operative agents: the agents contract in order to fmd a solution which overcomes the objectives of the single agents in order to pursue the global optimum of the system. ECAS represents the extension of a previous model by the author, AGENT, which implements deliberative but not co-operative agents. One of the aims of this paper is to compare the results of the two models in order to evaluate the value added by co-operation. Moreover, ECAS performance is compared with other traditional approaches to the same problem.

International Journal of Design Engineering, 2009

380 Int. J. Design Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2009 ... The impact of NPD projects on supply chai... more 380 Int. J. Design Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2009 ... The impact of NPD projects on supply chain complexity: an empirical research ... Maria Caridi, Margherita Pero* and Andrea Sianesi ... Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Piazza Leonardo ...

2011 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2011

Efficient operations are essential for the survival of courier companies in their respective mark... more Efficient operations are essential for the survival of courier companies in their respective markets. In order to support efficient operations of the courier companies, a methodology for improving the dispatch process is proposed in this paper that incorporates both unitarian and pluralistic approach. In most of the actual operations research (OR), the objective is to develop efficient algorithms for the

International Journal of Production Economics, 2014

ABSTRACT Decisions on where and how to locate a production and supply network have become an incr... more ABSTRACT Decisions on where and how to locate a production and supply network have become an increasingly important part of a firm’s global supply network strategy and are critical to obtain competitive advantages. This paper contributes to extend knowledge in the field of production and supply network strategy in the fashion industry. Analysing the supply network strategy literature, the paper investigates production and supply network configurations that fashion-industry firms implement to remain competitive in a global context. Statistical analyses on survey data from 132 Italian fashion companies highlight the existence of three different clusters of companies that have identified alternative ways to organise their production and supply networks that are aligned with their specific competitive priorities (e.g., critical success factors). The study characterises the three different clusters of production and supply strategies of fashion companies, and provides useful interpretation of differences among clusters. In particular, the research distinguishes which subset of managerial capabilities (e.g., ability to trace supply network processes, collaborate along the chain and realize production, prototypes and samples in local networks linking brand reputation to Made-in-Italy,) fashion companies should possess and nurture to successfully develop and implement different, either local or international, production and supply network configurations.

Production Planning & Control, 2008

This paper presents the results of a project aimed at reducing loan applications lead time within... more This paper presents the results of a project aimed at reducing loan applications lead time within the loan granting process of an Italian bank. The loan granting process has been modelled by means of a simulation model and the impact of five factors has been studied: ie first, the ...

Production Planning & Control, 2001

ABSTRACT The competitive playground where nowadays firms struggle to survive has rapidly become u... more ABSTRACT The competitive playground where nowadays firms struggle to survive has rapidly become unforeseeable: product life cycle has shrunk, becoming even shorter than in the past, and world-wide market is suffering for a strong customer differentiation which led to an increasingly wide product mix. In this industrial environment, the engineering change process is getting more and more attention throughout the branches of industry, as it appears as a critical process which seeps into the operations management core, thus influencing the overall firm's performances. A brief state-of-the-art in the area of engineering change is firstly presented. Then a proposal of classification and a new methodology for an effective engineering change process management are suggested. The new proposed methodology has been successfully applied to a real-life manufacturing system and the related case study is reported at the end of the paper.

Production Planning & Control, 2006

This study aims to provide a new approach to the effective design of paced lines by focusing on p... more This study aims to provide a new approach to the effective design of paced lines by focusing on protective capacity. The paper investigates—through an analytical model—the required level of protective capacity and its location along the line; then the proposed model is tested via simulation, by considering a four-station production (or assembly) paced line. The simulated line is plagued by

Production Planning & Control, 2004

... and simulation techniques MARIA CARIDI, SERGIO CAVALIERI, GIORGIO DIAZZI and CRISTINA PIROVAN... more ... and simulation techniques MARIA CARIDI, SERGIO CAVALIERI, GIORGIO DIAZZI and CRISTINA PIROVANO ... Authors: Maria Caridi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Via Colombo, 40-20133 Milano, Italy. Email: maria.caridi@polimi.it. ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2002

Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 2006

Purpose – The standpoint of this research lies in the study of the CPFR process for trading partn... more Purpose – The standpoint of this research lies in the study of the CPFR process for trading partners (belonging to the same supply chain) who are willing to collaborate in exchanging sales and order forecast. This points out the need for providing a collaboration process with an intelligent tool to optimise negotiation. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review and classification has

Production Planning Control, 2001

ABSTRACT The competitive playground where nowadays firms struggle to survive has rapidly become u... more ABSTRACT The competitive playground where nowadays firms struggle to survive has rapidly become unforeseeable: product life cycle has shrunk, becoming even shorter than in the past, and world-wide market is suffering for a strong customer differentiation which led to an increasingly wide product mix. In this industrial environment, the engineering change process is getting more and more attention throughout the branches of industry, as it appears as a critical process which seeps into the operations management core, thus influencing the overall firm's performances. A brief state-of-the-art in the area of engineering change is firstly presented. Then a proposal of classification and a new methodology for an effective engineering change process management are suggested. The new proposed methodology has been successfully applied to a real-life manufacturing system and the related case study is reported at the end of the paper.

The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file.

Production Planning and Control

Global Fashion Management Conference, 2015

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 2002

Global Production Management, 1999

This paper focuses on the evolution of planning systems in the recent years. In particular it dea... more This paper focuses on the evolution of planning systems in the recent years. In particular it deals with APS (Advanced Planning Systems), showing which limitations of traditional information systems for production planning APS overcome and highlighting their technical potential.

Global Production Management, 1999

This paper presents a multi-agent model, ECAS, for sequencing a mixed-model assembly line. ECAS i... more This paper presents a multi-agent model, ECAS, for sequencing a mixed-model assembly line. ECAS implements the concept of deliberative and co-operative agents: the agents contract in order to fmd a solution which overcomes the objectives of the single agents in order to pursue the global optimum of the system. ECAS represents the extension of a previous model by the author, AGENT, which implements deliberative but not co-operative agents. One of the aims of this paper is to compare the results of the two models in order to evaluate the value added by co-operation. Moreover, ECAS performance is compared with other traditional approaches to the same problem.

International Journal of Design Engineering, 2009

380 Int. J. Design Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2009 ... The impact of NPD projects on supply chai... more 380 Int. J. Design Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2009 ... The impact of NPD projects on supply chain complexity: an empirical research ... Maria Caridi, Margherita Pero* and Andrea Sianesi ... Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Piazza Leonardo ...

2011 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2011

Efficient operations are essential for the survival of courier companies in their respective mark... more Efficient operations are essential for the survival of courier companies in their respective markets. In order to support efficient operations of the courier companies, a methodology for improving the dispatch process is proposed in this paper that incorporates both unitarian and pluralistic approach. In most of the actual operations research (OR), the objective is to develop efficient algorithms for the

International Journal of Production Economics, 2014

ABSTRACT Decisions on where and how to locate a production and supply network have become an incr... more ABSTRACT Decisions on where and how to locate a production and supply network have become an increasingly important part of a firm’s global supply network strategy and are critical to obtain competitive advantages. This paper contributes to extend knowledge in the field of production and supply network strategy in the fashion industry. Analysing the supply network strategy literature, the paper investigates production and supply network configurations that fashion-industry firms implement to remain competitive in a global context. Statistical analyses on survey data from 132 Italian fashion companies highlight the existence of three different clusters of companies that have identified alternative ways to organise their production and supply networks that are aligned with their specific competitive priorities (e.g., critical success factors). The study characterises the three different clusters of production and supply strategies of fashion companies, and provides useful interpretation of differences among clusters. In particular, the research distinguishes which subset of managerial capabilities (e.g., ability to trace supply network processes, collaborate along the chain and realize production, prototypes and samples in local networks linking brand reputation to Made-in-Italy,) fashion companies should possess and nurture to successfully develop and implement different, either local or international, production and supply network configurations.

Production Planning & Control, 2008

This paper presents the results of a project aimed at reducing loan applications lead time within... more This paper presents the results of a project aimed at reducing loan applications lead time within the loan granting process of an Italian bank. The loan granting process has been modelled by means of a simulation model and the impact of five factors has been studied: ie first, the ...

Production Planning & Control, 2001

ABSTRACT The competitive playground where nowadays firms struggle to survive has rapidly become u... more ABSTRACT The competitive playground where nowadays firms struggle to survive has rapidly become unforeseeable: product life cycle has shrunk, becoming even shorter than in the past, and world-wide market is suffering for a strong customer differentiation which led to an increasingly wide product mix. In this industrial environment, the engineering change process is getting more and more attention throughout the branches of industry, as it appears as a critical process which seeps into the operations management core, thus influencing the overall firm's performances. A brief state-of-the-art in the area of engineering change is firstly presented. Then a proposal of classification and a new methodology for an effective engineering change process management are suggested. The new proposed methodology has been successfully applied to a real-life manufacturing system and the related case study is reported at the end of the paper.

Production Planning & Control, 2006

This study aims to provide a new approach to the effective design of paced lines by focusing on p... more This study aims to provide a new approach to the effective design of paced lines by focusing on protective capacity. The paper investigates—through an analytical model—the required level of protective capacity and its location along the line; then the proposed model is tested via simulation, by considering a four-station production (or assembly) paced line. The simulated line is plagued by

Production Planning & Control, 2004

... and simulation techniques MARIA CARIDI, SERGIO CAVALIERI, GIORGIO DIAZZI and CRISTINA PIROVAN... more ... and simulation techniques MARIA CARIDI, SERGIO CAVALIERI, GIORGIO DIAZZI and CRISTINA PIROVANO ... Authors: Maria Caridi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, Via Colombo, 40-20133 Milano, Italy. Email: maria.caridi@polimi.it. ...

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2002

Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 2006

Purpose – The standpoint of this research lies in the study of the CPFR process for trading partn... more Purpose – The standpoint of this research lies in the study of the CPFR process for trading partners (belonging to the same supply chain) who are willing to collaborate in exchanging sales and order forecast. This points out the need for providing a collaboration process with an intelligent tool to optimise negotiation. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review and classification has