Advanced planning tools for collaborative operations planning in the forest products industry

加拿大森林产品行业，特别是在家具行业或预制房屋行业等增值生产部门，由许多独立或综合的组织组成，共同制造产品并向客户分销。随着中国行业在北美市场的影响力越来越大，这些组织必须开发新的方法来合作，以更高效和有效地满足他们的客户。为了实现这一目标，必须解决的一个重要问题是，这些组织如何共同规划和协调其相互业务，以快速准确地响应市场需求，并消除所有影响其业绩的浪费(即时间和库存)。本研究的目的是利用分布式决策和供应链管理以及基于代理的供应链管理的最新进展，以(1)提出新的协同作业计划模型，重点是两级多层能力批量问题，以使当地组织变得更具竞争力；(2)分析这种协同实践对这些组织在不同供应、制造和需求环境下的绩效的影响。

The Canadian forest products industry, especially in the value-added production sector such as the furniture industry or the prefabricated house industry, is composed of many organizations, independent or integrated, working together to manufacture and distribute their products to their customers. Along with the increasing presence of the Chinese industry in the North American market, these organizations must develop new approaches to work together to be more efficient and effective to satisfy their customers. In order to achieve this goal, an important issue that must be solved concerns how these organizations jointly plan and coordinate their mutual operations to respond quickly and accurately to market needs and eliminate all wastes (i.e., time and inventory) that affect their performance. The objective of this research program is to exploit recent advances in distributed decision making and supply chain management and agent-based supply chain management in order to (1) propose novel collaborative operations planning models, with a focus on the two-echelon multi-level capacited lot-sizing problem, to allow local organizations become more competitive; and (2) Analyze the impact of such collaborative practices on the performance of these organizations with regard to various contexts of supply, manufacturing, and demand.