تعادل خط مشترک و مشکل تامین مواد

We analyze the interdependence of the line balancing and material supply problem in depth and reveal potential productivity gains through simultaneous planning. We set up a practice-oriented assembly line balancing model, which is extended to cover several important logistical constraints of the material supply problem, and solved it with a flexible heuristic on the general assembly line balancing problem, we developed in an earlier paper. In a computational experiment, we determine cost savings through simultaneous planning and show the applicability of our approach within a practice-oriented experiment.