Subcontracting, coordination, flexibility, and production smoothing in aggregate planning

Subcontracting, coordination, flexibility, and production smoothing in aggregate planning

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Article ID: iaor19911506
Country: United States
Volume: 36
Issue: 11
Start Page Number: 1352
End Page Number: 1363
Publication Date: Nov 1990
Journal: Management Science
Authors: ,
Keywords: production, programming: dynamic
Abstract:

The authors propose a model in which subcontracting can be explicitly considered as a production planning strategy. Possible market and nonmarket subcontracting mechanisms and their costs are discussed. The authors show that a class of feasible subcontracting mechanisms in which firms coordinate their production via subcontracts Pareto-dominate other mechanisms. They then offer one example with quadratic cost functions and coordination subcontracts; linear decision rules for production, inventory, and subcontracting are derived. In the example, subcontracting reduces the variability in production and inventory. The same interpretation can be used for flexibility of manufacturing resources.

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