Aggregated Production Planning in Sofa Production By Preemptive Goal Programming Approach

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to apply aggregate production planning in a furniture company which produces sofa. Preemptive goal programming has been used which is an effective method in aggregate production planning solution. Two different aggregate production plans have been suggested. One of the plans is two priority goal programming. First priority is targeted profit, second is both production size and line smoothing. Although first and second plans aims same profit level, in the second plan working time of work stations wanted to as near as possible. By this way work station’s spare times will be reduced. As a result of this study, the importance of production planning and control activities on the corporate profitability has been showned and it is concluded that scientific methods should be used. Based on the suggested production plan, it is possible to get new results by changing product numbers, types and number of planning periods.