| Article ID: | iaor199091 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Start Page Number: | 69 |
| End Page Number: | 81 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1986 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Rand Graham K. |
Methods for coping with the seasonality of demand problems in consumer industries are given, and a simple approach is suggested. The article presents a case study of a manual production plan applied to a situation characterized by changeover time and labor smoothing. The simple algorithm can be used to teach the relationship between production and inventory costs.