Production planning and scheduling in the context of cyclic delivery schedules

✍ Scribed by Z. Bahroun; P. Baptiste; J.P. Campagne; M. Moalla

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 288 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-8352
• DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(99)00012-1

✦ Synopsis

This paper considers a factory which produce n items on a single facility and which is confronted to a cyclic demand: each item is ordered relatively to a cyclic delivery schedule with a mean quantity for each delivery. This kind of << contract-order >> is found very frequently, especially in the big distribution and the automotive sectors. So, the long-term information becomes the due date and the exact quantity that will be delivered is only known in the short term.

This work aims at defining a new production management model and especially determining cyclic production schedules in this context. The proposed approaches are based on generating, evaluating and selecting the best production sequences and phases.