Golf Club Essay

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A golf club supply chain company needs to find a solution to the supply chain network planning problem. The production for the golf clubs are pending on the ability for the company to meet serval aspects. Currently they are facing the following: 14 components, 10 assembled products, 18 suppliers, 54 customers, and in a 12-month time period. “The main objective is to construct a procurement-assembly plan enabling it to minimize its costs while satisfying the customers’ demand over a given planning horizon is such a way as to hedge against uncertainty.” (Bilgen, B. 2010). Due to several uncertainties; it was determined that using the Fuzzy Mathematical Programming (FMP) model would provide the most accurate computational result. Zadah proposed …show more content…

For the purposes of finding most optimistic maximization model of supply chain for the golf company the flexible programming approach of the fuzzy programming will be used. With the uncertainty of the problem the flexible programming will include the fuzzy constraints of; fuzziness of the demand, capacity available, level of costs, and fuzzy coefficients. “…the development of a flexible modeling of the supply chain network planning problem for the multi-product, multi-period context, accompanied by experiments on real data.” (Bilgen, B. …show more content…

Fuzzy models provided the following: suppliers capacity would decrease and savings increases to 4.86%, experiment was conducted with higher demand and lower demand leading to higher demand showed lower savings and lower demand showed more flexible indicating the problem domain, and degree of uncertainty increased and that increased the total cost value. “The research illustrates that fuzzy linear programming approach not only provides a better and flexible way of representing the supply network planning problem, it also improves the overall performance.” (Bilgen, B.

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