Decoupling point

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

At the decoupling point ( customer order decoupling point or order penetration point ), two logistic control circuits meet:

  • the customer-anonymous stock production of mostly series- produced standard components and
  • the contract manufacturing triggered by a customer order or other demand signal .

Physically, the decoupling point in the logistical chain is the last warehouse in which components are stored without reference to an order. After the decoupling point, all production material is assigned to a customer order.

The decoupling point can be at different points in the process; if it is before final assembly, it is called a variant manufacturer, if it is before parts production, if it is a contract manufacturer, if it is before procurement, it is called a make-to-order manufacturer . All three order or production types can be assigned to the concept of mass customization .

Decoupling point in automotive engineering

In the automotive industry, in which flow production predominates, there is the opposite view; It is important here when a vehicle body that is already in production is assigned to a specific customer order. This assignment is also called "baptism" and the point in the production flow "baptism point". The automobile manufacturers try to choose the christening point as late as possible or the decoupling point as late as possible, in order to start with the production of the components and still be able to react flexibly to customer requests. With a late baptism, disruptions in the process can also be corrected more easily, as there is no direct dependency on an individual customer order. As long as a vehicle body has not yet been named, vehicle bodies can still be exchanged or the order of the bodies can be changed without this having a direct impact on the delivery date of a special customer order.

See also

literature

  • Ulrich W. Thonemann; Marc Albers (employee), Michael Becker-Peth (employee), Kai Hoberg (employee), Marcel Sieke (employee): Operations Management: Concepts, Methods and Applications. 2. actual Edition. Pearson, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8273-7316-8 .
  • H.-P. Wiendahl: Mastery of variants in assembly - concept and practice of the flexible final production stage. Springer Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-540-14042-5 .
  • W. Herlyn: PPS in automobile construction - production program planning and control of vehicles and assemblies . Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-41370-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich W. Thonemann; Marc Albers (employee), Michael Becker-Peth (employee), Kai Hoberg (employee), Marcel Sieke (employee): Operations Management: Concepts, Methods and Applications. 2. actual Edition. Pearson, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8273-7316-8 , p. 352.
  2. ↑ H.-P. Wiendahl (Ed.): Mastery of Variants in Assembly. Springer Verlag, Berlin 2004, p. 21 ff.
  3. ^ W. Herlyn: PPS in automobile construction. Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, pp. 199–201.