
184 Supply Chain Management and Logistics
Besides the aforementioned performance indicators, the frequency of the
production line setup is also considered. With the current planning method,
emergency changes always occur in the production plan if the raw materials
are available, largely because of using inaccurate forecast data to determine a
production plan that cannot align with incoming orders. Thus, at this point,
the current planning method is not good enough to match the customer
demand with the given production plan.
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