Otimização do problema integrado de dimensionamento e seqüenciamento de lotes: estudo de caso na indústria de rações.

Abstract

The object of this work is the integrated problem of lot sizing and sequencing the production of feed for animal nutrition. Such problem consists of deciding how much to produce of each feed in each period, taking itself in account the production sequencing of the lots, in way to satisfy the demand and to minimize the costs of production and storage. A case study was carried through in the facility of supplements from a company of this industry, located inland São Paulo, whose problem can be seen as multi-item, single-period and capacitated. One of the great difficulties to the production planning in this factory is the difficulty to adjust the productive capacity with the demand is season of the products, integrating the lot sizing decisions with the line scheduling decisions, since setup times are dependent of the production sequence. This work use integer linear programming for modeling the problem, which is solved with of the modeling language GAMS/CPLEX. To evaluate the performance of the considered model tests with real data had been carried through. The results show that the model can be useful to support the decisions of lot sizing and sequencing, therefore the solutions of the model in the tests realized are better than the ones elaborated by the production planning department of the company.