Aggregate production planning for manufacturing system: A case study of Makita company

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 Makita factory due to the fact that the company seeks three main objectives, the linear goal planning method was employed. The findings revealed the goal programming with multi objectives resulted by using CPLEX software. Keywords: Aggregate Production Planning (APP), goal programming, CPLEX software.