Lot-sizing models as a strategic tool for optimizing the supply chain management : case study NAFTAL company

Abstract EN

Improving the performance of the supply chain management allows the continuity of the organization as well as maximizing its profit while increasing customer satisfaction, and all this is done through the institution's reliance on effective supply chain management through its use of accurate quantitative methods and excluding random methods, which leads to a high level of the institution.

so we tried, through this research, to clarify the concepts of supply chain management and assess its performance.

we also attempted to illustrate various quantitative methods that help in manage this strategic function in the organization, including lot-sizing models, and multi-criteria methods.

finally, projecting the most appropriate method on the case of the GPL branch of the NAFTAL corporation, which is specialized in liquefied petroleum gas, by following the empirical approach.

where very important results were drawn showing the importance of these models in planning this strategic function in the short term.