Article ID: | iaor20081799 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 108 |
Issue: | 1/2 |
Start Page Number: | 191 |
End Page Number: | 199 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Gaalman G.J.C., Donk Dirk Pieter van, Soman C.A. |
Keywords: | production, scheduling |
More and more production systems are nowadays following a combined make-to-order (MTO) and make-to-stock (MTS) production mode. This paper tests the conceptual production planning and inventory control framework, developed recently, for such combined situations. We apply the framework in the case of a firm that produces 230 products on a single line with limited capacity. Areas of improvements in the framework have been identified and possible analytical decision aids are suggested. In particular, the short-term batch-scheduling problem requires more attention and we provide a heuristic to solve that problem.