Glassy Lenses
Glassy Lenses, a manufacturer of lenses for eyeglasses in France, can cherry pick orders from a pool of existing orders on a daily basis, but then bottlenecks may jump from one section to the other, making production planning and execution difficult. Help the plant management select correctly among the various products families so as to maximize profit.
Collection: IESE (España)
Ref: P-1201-E
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 4
Publication Date: Jan 28, 2022
Language: English, Spanish
Description
Glassy Lenses, a manufacturer of lenses for eyeglasses in France, can cherry pick orders from a pool of existing orders on a daily basis, but then bottlenecks may jump from one section to the other, making production planning and execution difficult. Help the plant management select correctly among the various products families so as to maximize profit.
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Year: 2021
Geographic Setting: Francia
Learning Objective
The goal is to show how to identify the bottleneck of a system when more than one products are manufactured and the production mix changes over time. A secondary goal is to illustrate how the optimal decision changes as a function of the objective function defined by the management team.
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