Análisis y Optimización del Proceso de Producción en una Empresa Procesadora de Leche

Abstract

The paper presents a model to analyse the production process of a large international milk-processing company, with the main objective of minimizing total production costs. Process optimization is an important task that must be solved during the strategic and operating steps of the company planning. The proposed methodology visualizes the situations as a linear blending optimisation problem and the model is based on goal programming methodology. The model was implemented using an original software application that is currently used in the company as an operational decision making tool. This system is a MS Excel add-in application written in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). The experience of the users that are currently using the software is positive and the company shows interest to continue using the application.