Simultaneous Product-Mix Planning, Lot Sizing and Scheduling at Bottleneck Facilities

Sin Hoon Hum and Rakesh K. Sarin
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Sin Hoon Hum: National University of Singapore
Rakesh K. Sarin: University of California, Los Angeles, California

Operations Research, 1991, vol. 39, issue 2, 296-307

Abstract: Planning and scheduling of bottleneck operations is a fundamental problem in production management because bottleneck facilities control the output and profitability of the entire system. We develop optimal solutions for the product-mix planning, lot sizing, and scheduling of such bottleneck facilities. The integrated product-mix planning, lot sizing and scheduling problem yields a nonconvex, mixed-integer nonlinear program which is difficult to solve for global optimality. Our strategy is to characterize the optimal solution and reduce the overall problem to a series of smaller, single variable, constrained optimization problems which can be solved relatively easily. We provide results for the two-product case for both the single-stage and two-stage production systems and for two types of production environments. Optimal solutions are also provided for the single-stage multiproduct case when all products are produced under a common-cycle restriction. Our work represents an extension of classical product-mix models to include the economic lot sizing and scheduling model.

Keywords: inventory/production: product-mix planning; production/scheduling: bottleneck facilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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