Multi-site aggregate production planning with multiple objectives: a goal programming approach

STEPHEN C. H. LEUNG, YUE WU and K. K. LAI

MRPII 34

Abstract.

This paper addresses the problem of aggregate production planning (APP) for a multinational lingerie company in Hong Kong. The multi-site production planning problem considers the production loading plans among manufacturing factories subject to certain restrictions, such as production import/export quotas imposed by regulatory requirements of

different nations, the use of manufacturing factories/locations with regard to customers’ preferences, as well as production capacity, workforce level, storage space and resource conditions of the factories. In this paper, a multi-objective model is developed to solve the production planning problems, in which the profit is maximized but production penalties resulting from going over/under quotas and the change in workforce level are minimized. To enhance the practical implications of the proposed model, different managerial production loading

Keywords aggregate production planning, multiple criteria decision-making, optimization, multi-site planning