Product-line planning under uncertainty

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Tezin Türü: Doktora

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2018

Öğrenci: ŞAKİR KARAKAYA

Danışman: GÜLSER KÖKSAL

Özet:

This study addresses the problem of multi-period mix of product-lines under a product- family, which incorporates launching decisions of new products, capacity expansion decisions and product interdependencies. The problem is modelled as a two-stage stochastic program with recourse in which price, demand, production cost and cannibalisation effect of new products are treated as uncertain parameters. The solution approach employs the Sample Average Approximation based on Monte Carlo bounding technique and multi-cut version of L-shaped method to solve approximate problems efficiently, which is tested on different cases considering VSS and EVPI performance measures. The data collected through two experimental studies is analysed using ANOVA and Random Forest methodology in order to understand which problem parameters are significant on the performance measures and to generate some rule-based inferences reflecting the relationship between significant parameters and the performance of the proposed stochastic model.