Linking tactical planning and operational control to improve disruption management in global production networks in the aircraft manufacturing industry

Production networks face several operational disruptions that are directly affecting performance. Hence, companies must not merely focus on their network's resilience by ensuring recovery from major shocks, but also address long-term robustness. For this purpose, they need a holistic, systematic disruption management. To improve the latitude for reaction to operational disruptions, we develop a new method that uses findings from operational control in tactical planning. Tactical planning and operational control are linked by proactive network adjustment strategies that enhance network robustness. To address dynamic developments, the network configuration needs to be continuously adjusted, resulting in an adaptive control loop between planning and control.