Production planning and scheduling

Abstract

Assuming that the master plan has been generated, we can now derive detailed plans for the different plants and production units. In the following we will describe the underlying decision situation (Sect. 10.1) and outline how to proceed from a model to a solution (Sect. 10.2). Some of these steps will be presented in greater detail, namely model building (Sect. 10.3) and updating a production schedule (Sect. 10.4). Whether Production Planning and Scheduling should be done by a single planning level or by a two-level planning hierarchy largely depends on the production type of the shop floor. This issue will be discussed together with limitations of solution methods in Sect. 10.5. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.