Zero-inventory plans, constant workforce, or hybrid approach? Analysing pure production strategies for enhancing factory resilience with demand variability
通过蒙特卡洛模拟和韧性指数模型，研究了中期纯生产计划策略（零库存、恒定劳动力等）对制造工厂韧性的影响，发现零库存计划能显著提升韧性，为生产规划者提供决策参考。
Historically the notion of resilience capability has primarily been conceptualised as a holistic construct in the domain of supply chain networks – referred to as SCRES. The field of SCRES has since evolved gaining prominence among scholars and practitioners. However, the existing SCRES literature inadequately delves into the embedded resilience harboured by their constituent components, practices, or internal routines, including the aggregate production planning (APP) process. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to examine the interplay between medium-term pure strategies for APP and the resilience of manufacturing facilities, assuming demand to be the sole source of uncertainty. To accomplish this, a realistic Monte-Carlo simulation model integrated with a robust heuristic procedure for pure strategies is merged with a factory resilience index-based Cobb–Douglas function. The results of this research suggest that manufacturing facilities achieve a higher level of resilience when certain ‘zero-inventory plans’ are implemented. Based on this key finding, production/demand planners might incorporate the resilience dimension alongside the customary manufacturing success factors. Thus, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study represents the first attempt to establish a clear linkage between the implementation of pure APP strategies and a quantitative measure of factory resilience.