Effective continuous time formulation for short term manufacturing supply chain scheduling

Todays, global competition, resource globalization and rapid development of various kinds of technology have challenged old manufacturing concepts to be survived. Moreover, decreasing product price, reducing manufacturing costs and improving product quality, have compelled manufacturing enterprises to meet the fluctuating customer needs. As a result of this fluctuation, frequent layout changes of production lines, decreasing of production lifecycle, reduction of product development time and time to market are encountered as critical issues. The encountered issues have a close relationship with modes of production processes. Therefore, in this paper alternating the production method from mass production into customized and short series manufacturing is studied with a mathematical model.

Keywords:

Supply chain management , Globalization , Computer Intergated Manufacturing Systems , Mathematical modeling