Mathematical programming analysis
Based on the data preparation, described in the previous section, the parts/
components to be produced in each country as well as procured from other
countries were calculated through the proposed mathematical model. The
actual calculation was performed by INDUSTRIAL LINGOTM software
(Cunningham and Schrage, 1988), which is a large-scale non-linear
mathematical programming package. The obtained results are summarize in
Figure 4, where the parts/components to be produced in each country and those
procured from other countries were summarized.