Supermarket Sizing in Production Flow Systems Based On Lean Principles

In today’s world, competitiveness is the key to survival in markets that are characterized by the demand of high quality products, in high quantities and with low production costs and short delivery times. In order to maintain its competitiveness, one has to constantly improve itself.

This project, proposed by INESC, intends to do exactly this. Its objective is to develop a tool that allows sizing a supermarket that will be placed nearly at the end of a production line and guarantee lower stocks while optimizing product delivery, by having the necessary products at the right time, in the right place, in the correct quantities.

The objective of this simulation is to validate results and extrapolate formulas from them, that are more accurate than the already existing ones.