This article presents a methodology approach and a specific features that must be considered to design and formulate an optimization model for automotive industry's Supply chain in the delocalization context.

An extensive literature review of the important existing supply chain models in general and particularly in automotive industry is presented in this article.

The review objective is to see how the automotive supply chain design is approached with a mixed integer programming model. We focus on the identification of the relevant aspects included in the formulations and characteristics specific to the automotive sector study.

The models supply chain design discussed are then classified in a summary table according to aspects viewed to identify their lack of features and to verify how they support the delocalization problem.

Finally, we propound some guidelines, methodology approach to respect in supply chain modeling and identifying opportunities for further research.