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Balancing Push and Pull Strategies within the Production System

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This paper presents an approach for achieving a trade-off between pull and push production control principles. A mathematical model of the operation of a production system is suggested, which incorporates different options for inventory control strategies. The model covers several types of disruptions: resource breakdown, product quality loss and demand fluctuation. The optimal solution minimizes the total cost objective function and can be push, one of the classic pull control systems (kanbans, conwip, basestock) or any possible combination/superimposition of them. The approach is illustrated in an example, for which optimal pull/push combination is found and its evolution is shown under several scenarios with disruptions.

Source: IFAC-PapersOnLine

DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.03.012

Authors: Alena Puchkova, Julien Le Romancer, Duncan McFarlane

Institution: University of Cambridge

Language: English

Topic: Supply Chain and Inventory Management

Subfield: Management Information Systems

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2340984573

FWCI: 4.188

Cites: 14

Cited by: 27

Related to: 10