A framework to optimize production planning in the vaccine industry

Abstract

In the literature, production planning optimization works are widely approached by mathematical researches to integrate more data and constraints toward delivering more reliable plans. In the particular context of vaccine industry, the vaccine product is a molecular substance with diverse definitions and presentations that involve with the closely coordination of many actors in the company. When it is difficult to support planning process by optimization solution, our contribution in this paper consists of proposing a production planning framework to structure some data integration issues according to different planning levels. With the correspondence of a better data management among production planning process, we aim to decline some best practices to provide more stable and reliable plans. © 2007 International Federation for Information Processing.