A STOCHASTIC LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACH FOR THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND INVENTORY SYSTEMS OF THE NIGERIAN BOTTLING COMPANY (NBC) : A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTH-WESTERN ZONE OF NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorNJOKU, Christian Onyewuchi
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-17T10:44:47Z
dc.date.available2015-08-17T10:44:47Z
dc.date.issued2015-02
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A MASTER DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA, NIGERIAen_US
dc.description.abstractIn the Nigerian Bottling Company, Production planning has a fundamental role to play. In this study, the particular scenario considered concerns the Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) with many production facilities and multi-products production systems. The Products are being distributed to a number of depots at which the demand for each product is known. The problem of interest involves determining what products should be made, how much of each product should be produced, and where production should take place. The objectives of the company are to minimize the total cost of operations as well as maximizing the total sales revenue based on the set of decisions, including demands, capacity restriction and budget constraints. The model, which consists of eighty-eight (88) variables and fifty-four (54) constraints is solved using a linear programming software known as Linear Programming Solver. The results show that production without the optimization principle gives a profit margin of five billion, forty two million, four hundred and thirty one thousand, two hundred naira (-N-5,042,431,200.00K) while production with the optimization principle gives a profit margin of five billion, sixty six million, eight hundred and ninety thousand naira (-N-5,066,890,000.00K). The model improved the profit of the company under study by -N-24,458,800 and reduced the Production, Inventory and Distribution (PID).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6767
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSTOCHASTIC LINEAR PROGRAMMING,en_US
dc.subjectPRODUCTION,en_US
dc.subjectINVENTORY SYSTEMS,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAN BOTTLING COMPANY,en_US
dc.subjectNORTH-WESTERN,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAen_US
dc.titleA STOCHASTIC LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACH FOR THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND INVENTORY SYSTEMS OF THE NIGERIAN BOTTLING COMPANY (NBC) : A CASE STUDY OF THE NORTH-WESTERN ZONE OF NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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