Abstract. In the process of design and manufacturing, product configuration is an important way of product development, and supplier selection is an essential component of supply chain management. To reduce the risk of procurement and maximize the profits of enterprises, this study proposes to combine the product configuration and supplier selection, and express the multiple uncertainties as interval numbers. An integrated optimization model of interval product configuration and supplier selection was established, and NSGA-II was put forward to locate the Pareto-optimal solutions to the interval multiobjective optimization model.
IntroductionProduct configuration is an effective way to achieve rapid product development. In the environment of mass customization, the product configuration design based on product family, with high efficiency and low cost of mass production to achieve the design and production of personalized products, so as to enhance the enterprise's rapid response ability and market competition ability. After the product configuration scheme is determined, according to the enterprise business strategy making production plan and outsourcing parts procurement plan, there is a selection of the best suppliers for parts. Rational selection of suppliers can help companies reduce costs and increase management flexibility, improve the core competitiveness of enterprises, and long-term cooperation with high quality suppliers, so as to effectively reduce the risk of procurement and maximize the profits of enterprises.At present, domestic and foreign scholars have done a lot of research on product configuration and supplier selection, considering the integration of product configuration and supplier selection is still rare. Jiang and other research on inventory driven product configuration optimization problem, the establishment of multi-objective optimization model and genetic algorithm [1]; Ostrosi and others regard the product configuration problem as the mapping process between multiple fuzzy models, and optimize the effective configuration scheme by the self-defined fuzzy configuration syntax to get the optimal solution [2]; considering the uncertain information of the new components, Liu et al. have established a fuzzy multi-objective configuration optimization model, and use mixed integer nonlinear programming algorithm to solve [3]; Yeh and others in the supplier selection criteria framework to add green guidelines, and the establishment of a multi-objective mixed integer nonlinear programming model, the use of multi-objective genetic algorithm for optimal solution [4]; Luo and other people to establish a product family design and supplier selection of a unified optimization model to maximize