Many production managers are faced with the problem of planning production, inventory and work-force under the constraint of limited resources to meet a seasonal demand. Considerable research has been done on this planning problem and various planning models have been introduced. In those cases...

In this paper a comparison is made between the results and the cost-effectiveness of two computer search models for aggregate production planning when applied to a very sensitive high-order cost structure. The Search Decision Rule (SOR) model developed by Taubert outperforms the Sectioning...