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Production planning: a DEA-based approach

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In organizations with a centralized decision making environment, production usually involves the participation of more than one individual unit, each contributing in part to the total production. The planning problem involves determining the number of products to be produced by all individual units in the next season when demand changes can be forecasted. This paper introduces a data envelopment analysis approach to making future production plans in a centralized decision making environment when demand changes can be forecasted in the next production season. The approach proposed in this paper takes the size of operational units into account so that the planned production for each unit becomes proportionate to the ability of the units. A real world data set is used to illustrate the applicability of the approach.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

    Alireza Amirteimoori

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Lahidjan, Iran

    Sohrab Kordrostami

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Amirteimoori, A., Kordrostami, S. Production planning: a DEA-based approach. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 56, 369–376 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-011-3178-9

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