The Allocation of Production orders to offshore Plants in the Clothing Industry: Part 2-Prototype System Supporting Order Allocation Decisions

This part demonstrates a prototype system which has been constructed to enable the allocation of orders of different product types to different manufacturing locations . ' What - if' experiments using this system show that different allocation rules would provide different outcomes in terms of the number of unallocated orders. A high number of unallocated orders will have a direct Impact on workload. Further research effort is necessary to channel into the exercbe of production order allocation with particular reference to allocation rules.     

The Allocation of Production Orders to Offshore Plants in the Clothing Industry:Part1-Model Conceptualisation

As a rough cut planning exercise,production order allo-cation for offshore manu facturing sites in the clothingindustry has received little attention as does other typesof planning like production planning.This paper outlinesan investigation into the exercise of production order al-location in the clothing industry.We have identified thatpractitioners involving in this exercise are not unanimousin the selection of offshore sites.Part 1 presents thebackground,objectives,process and conceptual model ofproduction order allocation.