| Article ID: | iaor20082492 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Volume: | 50 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 201 |
| End Page Number: | 218 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2007 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan |
| Authors: | Ishii Hiroaki, Ueno Nobuyuki, Okuhara Koji, Shibuki Hiroaki, Kuramoto Toshiaki |
| Keywords: | inventory, manufacturing industries, programming: mathematical, programming: probabilistic, practice, production |
In the automobile industry, a usual business model has a problem to realize mass customization, because it is difficult to satisfy the diversified customer needs. This paper proposes a multi-item production and inventory planning method of the mass customization with the consideration of the restriction of daily manufacturing capacity and so on. This model is formulated as a stochastic programming problem, and then the sub problem as a linear programming problem. An efficient and practical algorithm for the multi-item model is developed.