BALANCING PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND DEMAND THROUGE AGGREGATE PRODUCTION PLANNING (APP) : A CASE STUDY IN BAGHDAD COMPANY FOR SOFT DRINKS , BAGHDAD , IRAQ

Abstract

Based on the data witch researcher collected it from Production processes department in Baghdad company for soft drinks, there were six kinds of soft drink products ( pepsi , Miranda , 7up , green apple , shani , lemon ) . there were still shortages of production capacity in three products only ( green apple , shani , lemon ) in 2017. a company produced zero units at several times from the year 2017 for these limit products (3 only). to overcome this problem , the purpose of this research was to make Production planning & control consisting of : Aggregate production planning and forecasting demand by weighted moving average method in 2018 . the tested values show how Baghdad company for soft drinks can balancing between production capacity and demand of customers in the year 2018 through (first quarter only).