A Simple Optimization DSS for Production Planning at Dairyman's Cooperative Creamery Association

Robert S. Sullivan and Stephen C. Secrest
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Robert S. Sullivan: The Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
Stephen C. Secrest: Dairyman's Cooperative Creamery Association, Tulare, California 93724

Interfaces, 1985, vol. 15, issue 5, 46-53

Abstract: A small optimization-based decision support system was designed and implemented on a microcomputer at Dairyman's Cooperative Creamery Association. The milk flow analysis program, used for daily production planning and inventory forecasting, relieves plant supervisors of about four hours a day of overwhelming hand calculations. In addition, the system has improved interaction between all levels of management.

Keywords: industries: agriculture/food; decision analysis: systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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