Production Planning For Kitting Operationa: A Case Study Of Jabil Vietnam

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to develop a detailed descriptive model for production planning at a kitting facility to support a manufacturing plant, allowing computation of systems’ economic performances and number of workers. A mathematical model allows to calculate a number of workers for each kit and determines total system costs by assessing relevant cost items including the regular time production cost, overtime production cost, inventory cost, backorder cost, labor cost, and setup changeover cost. Optimized solution obtained form CPLEX is then tested with different worker yields and proved to be significantly better than the current performance of the case study company