Article ID: | iaor19931774 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 32 |
Start Page Number: | 69 |
End Page Number: | 73 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1991 |
Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
Authors: | Sounderpandian Jayavel, Balashanmugam Bala |
Keywords: | programming: transportation, transportation: general |
This case study involves scheduling in a die-casting firm where load and capacity change too rapidly to follow a firm long-term schedule. It describes how a short-term scheduling procedure that uses the transportation model running on a microcomputer was implemented in that firm. The costs involved in the procedure are minimal. With necessary modifications, the same method can be implemented in any similar environment.