B. Adenso-Díaz and M. Laguna
Production and Operations Management, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 357-370 (1997)
Since the development of early versions of material requirements planning (MRP) systems, it has been known that a weak link in this technique is the failure to consider the available capacity at the time the lot sizes for individual items are calculated. Ignoring the available capacity may result in infeasible production plans (i.e., when required capacity exceeds the available regular capacity). This paper offers a new approach to creating feasible production plans form MRP output by means of a lot-sizing heuristic based on tabu search. Computational experiments show that the procedure is effective in determining lot sizes for individual items that either minimize or eliminate capacity infeasibility.
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