Multi-criteria approach to optimization of enterprise production programme

Abstract

This paper develops a multi-criteria model for making decisions on the production programme relevant for industrial enterprises. It presents some possibilities of using the method of multi-criteria decision making with managerial decision making on the production programme and some possibilities of modelling and disclosing preferences of a decision maker when conducting multi-criteria rating of alternative solutions by applying the concept of PROMETHEE method. The development of a multi-criteria basis for multi-layered and multilevel decision making in a system of relevant criteria, including development aspect, technical and technological aspect, economic aspect, competitive aspect, and humanity aspect, with a set of relevant criteria indicators of quantitative and qualitative nature. By introducing new types of preference functions and by applying them to the multi-criteria decision making of the production programme and to the software support implemented there, original solutions to the problem of the programme orientation optimization are offered. Practical testing of the projected model and of the complex procedure of multi-criteria decision making was demonstrated in practice with the example of a multi-criteria approach to the selection of an optimal variant for the programme of hail suppression rockets production. A multi-criteria approach ensures finding solutions for, and examining the products that are a key to, the long-term development of the enterprise. © 2011 Authors.