Proposing an Aggregate Production Planning Model by Goal Programming Approach, a Case Study

Mansoureh Farzam Rad1*, Hadi Shirouyehzad1

(1) Department of Industrial Engineering, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Copyright 2014 © Mansoureh Farzam Rad and Hadi Shirouyehzad. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.   

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Abstract

Production planning is one of the most important functions in the process of production management. Production planning in the intermediate range of time is termed as “aggregate production planning (APP)”.

Aggregate production planning is an important upper level planning activity in a production management system. The present study tries to suggest an aggregate production planning model for products of Hafez tile factory during one year.

Due to this fact that the director of the company seeks 3 main objectives to determine the optimal production rate, the linear goal planning method was employed.

After solving the problem, in order to examine the efficiency and the distinctiveness of this method in compare to linear programming, the problem was modeled just by considering one objective then was solved by linear programming approach.

The findings revealed the goal programming with multi objectives resulted more appropriate solution rather than linear programming with just one objective. 

Keywords: Goal programming, Aggregate planning, production planning