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Aggregate Planning
OM AP
Aggregate Planning
Provides quantity and timing of production for the intermediate future (usually 3 to 18 months ahead)
Objective to minimize cost over the planning period while matching demand
Links firms strategic goals and production plans (manufacturing) or work force schedules (service)
OM AP 2
Operations managers
Aggregate Planning
Jan 150,000
Mar 110,000
Apr
Jun
100,000
130,000
Quarter 3
150,000
Jul 180,000
Aug 150,000
Sep 140,000
Work Force
Inventory On Hand
OM AP
Meet demand Use capacity efficiently Meet inventory policy Minimize cost
OM AP
changing inventory levels varying work force size by hiring or layoffs varying production capacity through
influencing demand backordering during high demand periods counterseasonal product mixing
OM AP
OM AP
Advantages/Disadvantages Continued
Option Advantage Disadvantage Some Comments
Varying Matches seasonal Overtime Allows production rates fluctuations premiums, tired flexibility within through overtime without workers, may not the aggregate or idle time hiring/training meet demand plan costs Subcontracting Permits Loss of quality Applies mainly flexibility and control; reduced in production smoothing of the profits; loss of settings firm's output future business
OM AP
10
Advantages/Disadvantages Continued
Option Advantage Disadvantage Some Comments
Using part-time Less costly and workers more flexible than full-time workers High Good for turnover/training unskilled jobs in costs; quality areas with large suffers; temporary labor scheduling pools difficult Tries to use Uncertainty in Creates excess capacity. demand. Hard tomarketing ideas. Discounts draw match demand toOverbooking new customers. supply exactly. used in some businesses.
Influencing demand
OM AP
11
Advantage/Disadvantage Continued
Option Advantage Disadvantage Some Comments
Back ordering May avoid Customer must Many companies during highovertime. Keeps be willing to backorder. demand periods capacity constantwait, but goodwill is lost. CounterseasonalFully utilizes May require products and resources; allowsskills or service mixing stable workforce. equipment outside a firm's areas of expertise. Risky finding products or services with opposite demand patterns.
OM AP
12
The Extremes
OM AP
13
Mathematical approaches
Transportation method
OM AP
Determine the labor costs, hiring and firing costs, and inventory holding costs
Consider company policies which may apply to the workers or to stock levels Develop alternative plans, and examine their total costs
OM AP 15
Average requirement
70 60 50 40 30
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
= Month
= Number of working days
22
18
21
21
22
20
Feb pay rate 900 Average Mar 1,050 Apr 1,050 Overtime pay rate May 1,100 Labor-hours to produce June 1,000 a unit
Cost of increasing daily production rate (hiring and training) Cost of decreasing daily production $600 per unit Total units of inventory carried over from one rate (layoffs) month to the next = 1,850 Table 13.3
200 $ 5 per hour ($40 per +200 400 day) +250 650 $ 7 per hour -1508 hours per 500 (above day ) -400 100 1.6 hours -100 per unit 0 $300 per unit 1,850
rate (hiring and training) Cost of decreasing daily production $600 per unit Total units of inventory carried over from one rate (layoffs) month to the next = 1,850 Table 13.3
= 38 units per day $10 per unit x $124 5 per days hour ($40 per day) = 4,712 units
$ 7 per hour (above 8 hours per 6,200 day) - 4,712 1.6 hours per unit 1,488 units $300 per unit $600 per unit
= 38 units per day $10 per unit x $124 5 per days hour ($40 per day) = 4,712 units
$ 7 per hour (above 8 hours per Calculations 6,200 day) - 4,712 (= 7.6hours workers x $40 per 1.6 per unit 1,488 units
Total cost
$52,576
Cost Information
Extra Cost of Extra Cost of $ 5 per unit per month Increasing Decreasing Production Production Total $10 unit (hiring cost ) per (layoff cost) Cost
(= 19 x $300)
$ 5 per hour ($40 per $ 7,200 day) $1,200 6,800 (=hour 2 x $600) $ 7 per (above$600 8 hours per 7,000 day)(= 1 x $600) $5,7001.6 hours per unit 15,300
15,300 16,600 $68,200
Cost of increasing daily production $3,300$300 per unit May 1,500 68 12,000 (= 11 x $300) rate (hiring and training) $7,800 Cost June of decreasing 1,100 55 daily production 8,800 $600 per unit (= 13 x $600) rate (layoffs) Table 13.3
$49,600 $9,000 $9,600
Table 13.4
37,696 0
49,600 0
Hiring
Layoffs Subcontracting Total cost
0
0 0 $58,850
0
0 14,880 $52,576
9,000
9,600 0 $68,200
Yield Management
Requirements
OM AP
28
Yield Management
Characteristics that make YM interesting
29