Colby Allen, Blaine DeLuca, Emma Elgqvist, Sayeed Mehrjerdian, Amanda Persaud, Jamie Serratelli, and William Tang
Team Mars conducted a two-part project focused on supply chain and production improvements. The first part addressed a redesign of the co-pack supply chain to determine where all co-packed products are to be produced. A mixed integer programming optimization model was developed to balance transportation and handling cost savings with new production line upgrades at co-pack facilities. The resulting redesign plan should yield $4 million in annual savings. The second part addressed production scheduling at the Kennesaw co-pack facility. A scheduling optimization model was built to construct an optimal production plan given weekly product demands. The model included the capability to configure lines with varying staffing levels to increase efficiency. The scheduling tool is estimated to yield $700,000 in annual savings.