What is it about?
Product variety usually reduces efficiency, increases lead times and work-in-process inventories. Load based POLCA helps to keep lead times reasonable in an era of increased costumization and product variety proliferation.
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Why is it important?
Many industries, services and public operations face increased costumization under intensified lead time pressure.
Perspectives
Both POLCA and load based planning are starting points to develop more advanced resources planning methods in the future.
Mr. Nico J. Vandaele
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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This page is a summary of: Load-Based POLCA: An Integrated Material Control System for Multiproduct, Multimachine Job Shops, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, April 2008, INFORMS,
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1070.0174.
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