Interrelationships between Product Quality and Different Demand Cases in Ramp-up Scenarios

The following paper presents an approach to enable companies to cope with the interdependencies between product quality and different demand scenarios. Although, companies strive to enhance their quality and demand policies they lack a holistic view of these parameters. Thus, the aim of the paper is to determine the impact of the chosen quality and demand policy on the availability of the goods. In a simulation setup, different demand and quality policies have been analysed by using a Design of Experiments approach. In a first step minimum stock levels have been varied to verify the significance of the simulation. In a second step error rate has been increased to identify the impact on the availability of the goods. In particular, considering the quality and demand policy within ramp-up cases plays an important to guarantee the ability to supply.