Cooperative Multiobjective Decision Support for the Paper Industry

Authors:
Sesh Murthy;Rama Akkiraju;Richard Goodwin;Pinar Keskinocak;John Rachlin;Frederick Wu;James Yeh;Robert Fuhrer;Santhosh Kumaran;Alok Aggarwal;Martin Sturzenbecker;Ranga Jayaraman;Robert Daigle
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Venue:
Interfaces
Year:
1999

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Abstract

We built and deployed a decision-support system for scheduling paper manufacturing and distribution, an extremely complex task with multiple stages of production and strong interaction between stages. In contrast to earlier approaches, our system considers multiple scheduling objectives and multiple stages of production and distribution simultaneously using multiple evaluation criteria. Our system functions as an intelligent assistant to the schedulers and generates multiple good scheduling alternatives using a portfolio of algorithms and direct human-expert input. The successful deployment of our system at several paper mills in North America has resulted insignificant savings, greater customer satisfaction, and improved business processes.