Co-Production of Substitutable Products

Publication Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

1995

Abstract

Co-production occurs when a production run produces, simultaneously, more than one type of product. In this paper, we consider co-production planning problems with stochastic yields, multiple processes, limited capacity and nontransitive product demand substitution. We show that these problems can be transformed to a structure where the demand substitutions are transitive. We address the decisions of how to select processes, to determine production quantities for each process and to allocate inventory to product demands. Finally, we provide simple heuristics and report on computational experiments done on randomly generated test cases.

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Operations and Supply Chain Management

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

Production Planning and Control

Volume

6

Issue

1

First Page

13

Last Page

13

ISSN

0953-7287

Identifier

10.1080/09537289508930249

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537289508930249

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