Manufacturing can be complicated and expensive; that's why there needs to be a method to simplify the process. When looking to minimize production costs, many manufacturers turn to aggregate planning ...

Aggregate planning seeks to forecast mid-term (six to 18 months) demand and output capacity for a company. If your small business is a service company, you may not be used to thinking in terms of ...

Students will learn applications of operations research methods to practical problems of production planning and inventory control; forecasting; aggregate planning; deterministic and stochastic ...

Effective and efficient manufacturing operations require close integration between long-run planning and short-run production scheduling. A testament to this is the decades-old field of research and ...