Pulse para ampliar

Manuel Díaz-Madroñero, from the Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP) on the Alcoi Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de València, has been awarded the CEL University Award in the 2015 edition for his doctoral thesis “MRP IV: Fourth Generation Materials Requirements Planning” directed by professors Josefa Mula Bru and David Peidro Payá.

The CEL University Award, awarded by the Spanish Logistics Center (CEL), has become the most prestigious and important national award for research in the field of logistics. The winners of the award are the researchers who demonstrate in their work the most significant contributions in the business field to the improvement of supply chain management.

The main objective of Díaz-Madroñero’s thesis is the proposal of a new model, called MRP IV, that integrates production planning and supply transportation into the same decision system, with the restrictions inherent to the latter, such as such as types of transportation, pickup modes (milk-run, full truck, routes) in the supply chain. The objective is to avoid suboptimization of these plans, which are currently usually generated sequentially and independently.

The proposed model has been validated in a supply chain in the automotive sector, confirming the reduction of total costs and more efficient planning of the transportation of the trucks necessary to carry out the supply.

The Thesis is framed in the research developed by the Research Center in Production Management and Engineering (CIGIP) in different projects of the National R&D&I Plan and the R&D&I Support Program of the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

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