The work presented in this article constitutes a contribution to modeling and forecasting the demand in a food company, by using time series approach. Our work demonstrates how the historical demand data could be utilized to forecast future demand and how these forecasts affect the supply chain. The historical demand information was used to develop several autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models by using Box-Jenkins time series procedure and the adequate model was selected according to four performance criteria: Akaike criterion, Schwarz Bayesian criterion, maximum likelihood, and standard error. The selected model corresponded to the ARIMA (1, 0, 1) and it was validated by another historical demand information under the same conditions. The results obtained prove that the model could be utilized to model and forecast the future demand in this food manufacturing. These results will provide to managers of this manufacturing reliable guidelines in making decisions.
In this article, we present a contribution to modeling, evaluation, and analysis of the inventory management systems performance and more generally stochastic discrete event systems with a batch behavior. For this contribution, we combine two models: the Supply Chain Operations Reference model, proposed by the Supply Chain Council, with the Batch Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Nets, which constitutes a very powerful dynamic modeling tool. To do this, we applied these tools on a typical model of inventory management system in order to show how the combination of these two tools can help us to model and analyze the performance of the inventory management system and to provide information on their behavior and the effects of their parameters. A resolution of the stochastic process associated with the warehouse management system will allow us to calculate the following performance indicators: average stock, average cost of stock, probability of an empty stock, and average supply and frequency. These indicators will help to monitor the activity of our stock management system, and therefore make the right decisions for the development of the organization.
The work presented in this paper constitutes a contribution to improve and evaluate the performance of a production line, by using the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) indicator. In this paper, we propose and implement an OEE improvement approach based on Best Maintenance Practices (BMPs) and apply them to a case study of an automotive wiring mechanical machine. To do this, we conducted an internal benchmarking study to select BMPs and we applied them to improve the availability of the machine and the total performance of the OEE. By applying these Best Maintenance Practices (BMPs) to this machine, we were able to improve its availability from 50 % as average in 2012 to 80 % in 2015. In addition, the OEE was improved from 39% as average in 2012 to 71% in 2015.
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