A bimodal scheme for multi-stage production and inventory control

  • Authors:

  • Jean-Claude Hennet

  • Affiliations:

  • LAAS - CNRS, 7, Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077 Toulouse, Cédex 4, France

  • Venue:
  • Automatica (Journal of IFAC)
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This study considers a multi-stage multi-item production plant with its supply chain and customer environment. The production, supply and inventory plan is optimized on a dual-mode basis, under two different information patterns. The short-term plan relies on firm orders received from customers. On the contrary, the long-term plan is based on predicted demands represented by random sequences. In this study, the role of the long-term plan is mainly to impose a final condition set to the short-term plan.