Green Mills Inc. manages several lumber mills throughout the Northwestern United States that make a variety of wood products. The company is now considering expanding operations to Chile as a vehicle for reducing the prices of raw materials. In that respect, the management team is interested in assessing the cost consequences as a vehicle to properly assess this backward integration strategy.
More particularly, management wants to assess several different aggregate planning policies including amount, chase and mixed policies. Kenneth Ko and authors Owen Hall are affiliated with Pepperdine University.
PUBLICATION DATE: March 14, 2013 PRODUCT #: W13061-PDF-ENG
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