Transparency in Global Production Networks: Improving Disruption Management by Increased Information Exchange

Abstract

Modern companies operate in global production networks. The operational performance of production networks is hampered by disrupting events. Digitalization and the horizontal interlinkage of production networks may increase information exchange and lead to more transparency. It is propagated as being an enabler for a faster identification and reaction to disruptions. This paper presents a metamodeling approach that maps disruptions as systematic parameter variations and analyzes their impact on the performance of production networks under different level of information exchange. The method aims for the determination of cause-effect relationships and contributes to the determination of the appropriate level of information exchange in production networks.