Designing an Advanced Available-to-Promise Mechanism Compatible with the Make-to-Forecast Production Systems

In the competitive business world, applying a reliable and powerful mechanism to support decision makers inmanufacturing companies and help them to save time along with considering variety of effective factors is aninevitable issue. Advanced Available-to-Promise is a perfect tool to design and perform such a mechanism. In thisstudy, this mechanism which is compatible with the Make-to-Forecast production systems is presented. The ability todistinguish between batch mode and real-time mode advanced available-to-promise is one of the unique superioritiesof the proposed model. We also try to strengthen this mechanism by integrating the inventory allocation and job shopscheduling with considering due dates and weighted earliness/tardiness cost that leads to more precise decisions. AMIP model and a heuristic algorithm according to its disability to solve large size problems are presented. Thedesigned experiments and the obtained results have proved the efficiency of the proposed heuristic method.