Effect of Both Equipment Buffer Capacity and Inventory Buffer of End-Products on Criteria of System : A study of Designing Production System for Agricultural Processing Multi-Products (Part I)

Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of designing an efficient production system for agricultural processing products, where raw materials are harvested seasonally and limited shilf-life. This model, firstly, clarifies how the decaying loss of harvested raw materials and the shortage of end-products for market demand will be affected by the dviation of harvested quantity of raw materials and market demand the correlation between each end-product for market demand, and the production planning rules. We, secondly, obtain the average stock leel of end-products under the multi-buffer capacities which can control, within their estabished limit, both the decaying loss of raw materials and the shortage of end-products.