The Multi-Product Production Cycling Problem: Testing of Heuristics.

Abstract

The multi-product production cycling problem is concerned with the determination of a production/inventory policy for a single capacitated production facility which is dedicated to producing a family of products. In an earlier paper, heuristic policies were proposed for various versions of the multi-product problem. This paper tests the effectiveness of these heuristics by simulation. It is seen that the proposed heuristic utilizing composite products and the lead-time adjustment, is the most effective of the heuristics considered over the set of test problems for the identical-product problem. Likewise, the composite product heuristic is the best heuristic for the identical-cost problem and the correlated demand problem. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA053244

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  • Stephen C. Graves

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Composite Materials
  • Data Science
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  • Inventory
  • Lead Time
  • Massachusetts
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  • Nonparametric Statistics
  • Operations Research
  • Production Rate
  • Scheduling (Production)
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