Aggregate Planning Today

medium-range capacity planning
1. Time horizon: 3 to 18 months
2. Goal: Achieve a production plan to satisfy demand
  1. Appropiate resource input and output levels
  2. Influencing demand and supply
3. Basis to budget development
Principal Characteristics
1. 12 months of time horizon
  1. Updating of the plan periodically
2. Demand is assumed to be fluctuating, uncertain or seasonal
3. Possibility of changing demand and supply variables
4. it may achueve low inventories, good labor relations, low costs, flexibility and good customer services
5. Facilities are considered fixed
Decision options
1. Two types
  1. Modifying demand
    1. Pricing
    2. Advertising and production
    3. Backlog or reservation
    4. Development of complementary products
  2. Modifying supply
    1. Hiring and layoff of employees
    2. Overtime and undertime
    3. Using Part-time/temporary labour
    4. carrying inventory
    5. subcontracting
    6. making operative arrangements
Techniques for planning
1. Informal techniques
2. Mathematical techniques
3. Linear programming and extensions
4. Linear decision rule
5. Heuristic and simulation techniques
6. Management coefficients approach
7. Simulation search procedures
Antoine LORET A01675289, María Fernanda Villagómez Arcos A01165912, Andrés García-Dobarganes Michel A01204193
Still developing the process
1. Reformulate the problem
2. Find new frameworks
3. Improving production planning

Resource summary

	Created by María Villagómez over 9 years ago

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