General Motors Optimizes Vehicle Content for Customer Value and Profitability

被引：0

作者：

Wu-Smith, Peiling ^{[1
]}

Keenan, Philip T. ^{[1
]}

Owen, Jonathan H. ^{[1
]}

Norton, Andrew ^{[1
]}

Kamm, Kelly ^{[1
]}

Schumacher, Kathryn M. ^{[1
]}

Fenyes, Peter ^{[1
]}

Kiggins, Don ^{[1
]}

Konkel, Philip W. ^{[1
]}

Rosen, William ^{[1
]}

Schmitter, Kurt ^{[1
]}

Sheremet, Sharon ^{[1
]}

Yochima, Laura ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Gen Motors, Warren, MI 48092 USA

来源：

INFORMS JOURNAL ON APPLIED ANALYTICS | 2023年 / 53卷 / 01期

关键词：

conjoint analysis; mixed logit model; multiobjective nonlinear optimization; Edelman Award; CHOICE;

D O I：

10.1287/inte.2022.1144

中图分类号：

C93 [管理学];

学科分类号：

12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;

摘要：

General Motors (GM) vehicles have more than 100 customer-facing features, known as vehicle content. Decisions about how to package and price these features have a significant impact on our customers' experiences and on GM's business results. Vehicle features are assigned as standard, optional, or unavailable on different trim levels, resulting in an enormous combinatorial solution space. Vehicle content optimization (VCO) combines customer market research, discrete choice models, and custom multiobjective nonlinear optimization algorithms to optimize vehicle contenting and pricing decisions. VCO comprehends complex dynamics and tradeoffs and allows GM to optimally balance customer preferences and profitability. After six years of development and multiple proof-of-concept and pilot studies, VCO was officially integrated into GM's Global Vehicle Development Process in 2014. As of 2021, VCO has been used on more than 85 vehicle programs globally. It has enabled customercentric product development and more efficient engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing. GM Finance verified that VCO enabled $4.4 billion of incremental profit over the average product life cycle (i.e., six years on average) since 2018, making it a vastly impactful example of operations research and applied analytics.

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