Today competitive environment has enforced practitioners and researchers to pay great attention to issues enhancing both production and marketing competitiveness. To do so, it has been obligatory for the firms to consider production side activities while customer requirements are on the other side of competition. In this regard, hybrid make-to-stock (MTS)/make-to-order (MTO) production systems ...

in this paper, we consider a multi-site production planning problem subject to uncertainty in demand and workforce expenses. in our new mathematical model, we presented a production planning system considering failure in rework and breakdown. we also survey human workforce allocation and its expenses which are considered uncertain due to some tradeoff between company’s benefits and workforce :u...

As the gradual increase of the enterprise scale, the firms may possess many manufacturing plants located in different places geographically. This change will result in the multi-site production planning problems under the environment of multiple plants or production resources. Our research proposes the structural framework to analyze the multi-site planning problems. The analytical framework is...

Due to the increase of a variety of demands from downstream customers, the enterprises are necessary to expand more capacity of their factories by way of adding more plants or outsourcing. Many enterprises encounter great difficulties in production planning because manufacturing environments have changed from traditional single-plant to current multi-plants. Therefore, the company may possess m...

This paper proposes a production planning system for a semiconductor enterprise with multi-site fabs. Profit achievement of the whole enterprise and quick response mechanism for the due date setting are the major considerations of the proposed system. Two modules are included in this system. Throughput planning module considers the achievement of enterprise’s profit, operating characteristics o...