Forecasting demand and inventory management using Bayesian time series T.A. Spedding University of Greenwich‚ Chatham Maritime‚ Kent‚ UK K.K. Chan Nanyang Technological University‚ Singapore Batch production‚ Demand‚ Forecasting‚ Inventory management‚ Bayesian statistics‚ Time series Keywords Introduction A typical scenario in a manufacturing company in Singapore is one in which all the strategic decisions‚ including forecasting of future demand‚ are provided by an overseas office. The
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capacity management - the meaning of capacity Introduction The capacity of a production unit (e.g. machine‚ factory) is its ability to produce or do that which the customer requires. In production and operations management‚ three types of capacity are often referred to: Potential Capacity | The capacity that can be made available to influence the planning of senior management (e.g. in helping them to make decisions about overall business growth‚ investment etc). This is essentially a long-term
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ca CAPACITY AND DEMAND MANAGEMENT Capacity can be defined as ‘the maximum level of value added activity over a period of time that the service process can achieve under normal operating conditions’. (Johnston and Clark‚ 2001) The essential task of capacity management is to look at the current performance of a service identify any bottle necks‚ understand the workload places on it and the underlying business drivers that may affects future traffic. The next task is to access the workload growth
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Inventory Management deals essentially with balancing the inventory levels. Inventory is categorized into two types based on the demand pattern‚ which creates the need for inventory. The two types of demand are Independent Demand and Dependent Demand for inventories. The choice of how to control inventory depends upon the fact of whether or not the demand of the items has a dependent or an independent character. This difference is important in selecting an adequate inventory management approach
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1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 3 2.1 Forecasting Inventory 3 2.2 Aggregate Planning 3 2.3 Capacity Planning 4 2.4 Materials Planning 5 2.5 Just-in-Time (JIT) 6 3.0 ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND 8 3.1 History of the Company 8 3.2 Introduction to the Product 9 3.2 COMPANY SCALE 11 4.0 ORGANIZATION ’S PRACTICE AND POLICY 12 4.1 Inventory Management System 12 4.1.1 Inventory Replenishment 14 4.2 Inventory Holding 15 4.3 Adopted Model 15 4.4 Contingency Plans 16
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push-pull system of inventory? "Push type" means “Make to Stock” in which the production is not based on actual demand. "Pull type" means “Make To Order” in which the production is based on actual demand. The Push-type method is based on demand forecast. Pull-type supply chain management is based on the demand side such as Just-in-Time (JIT) and CRP (Continuous Replenishment Program) or actual demand assigned to later processes. Push System The push system of inventory control involves forecasting
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make- to -stock enviroment. This process can help to provide faster service to customers from available stock and lower costs considering Coke normally has a distribution process of bulk items. The customers buy directly from the available inventory. Demand management and distribution is therefore a fey focus.They use the continuous flow method of manufacturing. The products are made in a continuous fashion and tend to be highly standardized and automated with very high volumes of production. The production
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A STUDY ON INVENTORY MANAGEMENT OF VIKI INDUSTRIES PRIVATE LIMITED‚ CHENNAI INTRODUCTION As every business concern irrespective of size‚ nature and age needs an adequate level of inventory to carry out business operations and survive. Inventory becomes an important and integral part of business inadequate inventories means interruption of production and sales operation
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The Role of Inventory in the Supply Chain.’ $1.6 billion‚ it is an estimation of manufacturers’ and trade inventories in the United States in august 2012 (according to the US Department of Commerce). Inventory represents a significant part of company budgets. They are costly and can be risky‚ but the company spend a lot of money in inventories because they also provide some security for businesses. But what is exactly the role of inventory? Why it is required and what is its purpose
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......8 Introduction & Background The relationship between inventory management and transport is a complicated an interesting one. A lot of attention has been given to this relationship. Through logical thinking it can be deduced that there is a direct relationship between transport and inventory management. If inventory is managed better‚ transport performance can become better. This paper will discuss the inventory management-transport relationship by looking at the trade-offs between the
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