Daftar Isi:
  • The current global economic developments requires every company to compete globally. Companies must have specific strategies in order to maintain its existence. Thus the company is expected to produce an effective and efficient that can be done by minimizing production costs, labor costs, and inventory costs. Therefore, companies can do with aggregate planning. PT. X is a company engaged in the production of socks, where the production process employed by a company is a full production capacity in each month so that a pile of socks inventories when demand was slow and caused enormous stocks which costs each month and it will cost a loss. Sometimes there is a lack of inventories when demand soaring in certain months. This study aims to determine what strategies have been applied to the company facing fluctuatif demand of socks. Each month and how an aggregate planning in production method can be use to make a better production plan which will be more efficient. Strategies used in this study using aggregate planning with the transportation method can determine the optimum amount of production for each month and can reduce the total cost Rp 227.394.093,00 comparing with the total cost if the companies use their strategies with maximum production capacity.