Aggregate Production Planning: A Case Study At Tekcom Corporation

Abstract

This thesis proposed the multi-objective aggregate production planning problem by Goal Programming Method with different operational constraints, which include production, inventory, workforce level and other resources limitations such as 7 common types of products, 3 potential customers, 4 typical suppliers of Tekcom corporation will be considered. A goal programming method solves the problems with conflict and multiple objectives: minimize the total cost and maximize the quality of products by minimize the defect rate of raw materials from suppliers. All data was collected from company, used to test the efficiency of the proposed model. The results prove the flexibility and the reliability of the proposed model when adjust the goal priorities, which helps manager’s company can handle goal value to decide the optimal solution.