Production planning & scheduling. Computational feasibility of multi-criteria models of production, planning and scheduling

This paper surveys the applications of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methods to production planning, scheduling, and sequencing problems. The basic structure of the decision models are described by their objectives and the resulting models are classified by decision variables into the areas of Aggregate Production Planning, Disaggregate Production Planning, Production Scheduling, and Single Machine Sequencing. The problem sizes that have been solved are summarized to determine how practical it is to use MCDM.