In supply chain management manufacturing flow lines consist of two or more work areas, arranged in series and/or in parallel, with intermediate storage areas. The first work area processes raw items and the last work area produces end items or products, which are stored in a storage area in anticipation of future demand. Firstly managers should analyze and organize the long term production opti...

. Aggregate planning models as linear program (LP) are formulated in this paper. The uses of models for various examples of production outsourcing and planning the optimal Product Mix are demonstrated. The results of analyzes for different situations are given. The models to solve the problem of optimal Product Mix development, conditions determination under which outsourcing is profitable for ...

The requirement to achieve effective solutions in the shortest possible time manufacturing environment is essential, and it can be solved only by production planning methods. scientific problem that traditional methods for creating assessing plans are insufficient future necessary look new alternatives. planners framework of designing layouts subsequent capacity employees missing information, t...

A hierarchical approach to planning production in complex manufacturing systems is presented. A single facilitg containing a number of work-centers that prvduce multiple part types is considered. The planning horizon includes a sequence of time periods, and the demand for all part types is assumed to be known. The production planning problem consists of minimizing the holding costs for the work...

This work presents a multiple objective linear programming (MOLP) model based on the desirability function approach for solving the aggregate production planning (APP) decision problem upon Masud and Hwang’s model. The proposed model minimises total production costs, carrying or backordering costs and rates of change in labor levels. An industrial case demonstrates the feasibility of applying t...