Trade-Off Between Keeping Finished Product Storage and Programming Make-To-Order Production

The problems of storage management of raw material, processing material and finished product are well-known (Meredith and Shafer, 2007; Nahmias, 2004). In this environment, the storage of finished product ends up being highlighted with an interface between two conflicting logics: the production logics and the sales logics. In the production area the aspects of the use optimization of production means are a key factor, since for the sales area the demand compliance in time and quantity by the customer is an important feature.