By Moshe F. Rubinstein
Explores the suggestions and techniques of challenge fixing. The textual content examines qualitative instruments, quantitative instruments, and human values - and their position within the challenge fixing approach.
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With a possib!? significant increase in scrapped material. "For a similar issue, related to phase-in/phase-out of products. 7 on page 100. 20 SUPPLY CHAlN MANAGEMENT Q Fig. 5 Time evolution of inventory levels in the EOQ model. g.. if demand in measured in units/daym the holding cost is unit of value say euro - per unit, per day). The demand must be satisfied from stock. and goods are ordered from a supplier. A natural objective is finding an ordering strategy that allows the distributor to satisfy demand at minimum cost.
Lien capacity is held const,ant and equal to average demand. It may also be the case t,hat the mismatch is not between constant manufacturing capacity and time-varying demand, but between t,ime-varying raw material availability aiitl constant denland: this is the case for many food goods. such as canned tomatoes and olive oil. Sometimes, one can try to match capacity and tleinarid by producing items with opposed seasonalities. For instance, minter arid summer clothing can be produced in the same plants.
In other cases. transportat,ion capacity is used as a buffer: Apparently. " In a mathematical programming niodel illustrated on page 542 of appendix B. we illustrate how we might plan inventory buildup in order to match de"It remains t o be seen \vhether eating kiwi twelve months per year is worth t h e resulting pollut,iori. 26 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Fig. 7 Seasonal stock buildup and depletion. mand and manufacturing capacity. Clearly. 12 on page 571, we consider a production planning problem where both capacity limitations and fixed charges call for the creation of stock.