Linear Programming Model for Production Planning of Cassava Crackers

摘要

Cassava crackers companies have limited availability of cassava and its availability is greatly influenced by the season. The lack of good production planning and fluctuating cracker product demand makes this company experience overproduction and also underproduction. good production planning is needed to determine the optimal amount of cassava cracker production. The objective of this study is determine the amount of cassava crackers produced in a period by developing the linear programming (LP) model. The developed LP model will maximize the total profit. The LP model has five constraints function which include raw material, man hours, machine hours, product sale and nonnegative constraint. Case studies are given for the model validation process. The results obtained indicate that the model is able to determine the optimal amount of cassava cracker production.