Abstract:This paper is aimed at employing analytical target cascading (ATC) to solve the distributed production planning problem. In the ATC hierarchy, by setting a parent element to the core enterprise and a child element to each manufacturer, the core enterprise can negotiate the plans with the manufactures. Individual manufactures are able to make production plans autonomously, and finally achieve the global objective under the coordination of the core enterprise. ATC offers an independent decision making ability to… Show more
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