Software tool for the master production schedule conception based on the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem

Production management is a set of decisions that must reflect a compromise between customers’ satisfaction and production criteria such as cost, delay and quality. The goal of production management is to ensure the continued success of the firm. Industrial planning plays a central part in this one. The latter can be divided into three hierarchical decisional levels: the strategic level deals with long-term decisions such as opening or closing of factories or determining building sites. (horizon is more than eighteen months), the tactical level which deals with conception of several plans such as Master Production Schedule, stock policy on a mid term horizon (six to eighteen months), the operational level which relates to the daily scheduling of the workshops.