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Abstract | ||
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Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) technique is widely employed by most manufacturing companies, even though field applications point out some weaknesses, including ignored production capacity constraints and fixed lead-times. These weaknesses often lead to infeasible production schedules, which trigger fluctuating workloads over time, significant adjustment effort and eventually unpredictably long lead times. This paper introduces a capacity-oriented MRP procedure that combines the traditional MRP procedure with an approach based on linear programming: in this way, requirement of lead times pre-determined a priori outside the MRP procedure is overcome. The new procedure is then applied to a real-life company and results highlight that feasible plans of orders are generated without requiring lead-times as input and without relevant computational burden. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1080/00207543.2016.1177235 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
MRP, linear programming, capacity planning | Journal | 55 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
2 | 0020-7543 | 5 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.48 | 4 | 4 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tommaso Rossi | 1 | 10 | 1.61 |
| Rossella Pozzi | 2 | 7 | 1.19 |
| Margherita Pero | 3 | 18 | 4.58 |
| Roberto Cigolini | 4 | 18 | 2.18 |