This thesis deals with the issue of material flow of selected production area in the researched company. The master's thesis defines the weaknesses of the current state of inventory management and creates a proposal for the most effective management of material stock in the company, using lean production. The basic element of the thesis is the introduction of a pull system into a selected production area.

The diploma thesis deals with the introduction of lean management of selected processes. In these processes is looking for a suitable setting to eliminate waste to reduce the cost of material procurement logistics. Based on the analysis in the company is created a proposal, including its costs and benefits, after implementation in the selected company the set goals are achieved.

The aim of submitted thesis "The Study of Inventory Management in Connection with Manufacturing Process" is to analyze stock management system with relation to IS in chosen company. The first part of this diploma thesis is focused to the description of actual knowledge of inventory management and warehousing. Further I describe individual problems contextual to the actual situation and suggestions for inventory management optimization in company TWIST, spol. s r. o.. The purpose of this diploma thesis is to submit suitable suggestions, how to improve the processes.

This thesis focuses on the study and optimization of inventory management in company XXX Ltd. The theoretical part is dedicated to characteristic of basic concepts related to inventory management, their classification, related costs and inventory management methods. Practical part is focused on the analysis of the current state in the company, on providing, storage and controlling of inventory. This analysis reveals deficiencies for which several solutions will be suggested. They will lead to more effective inventory management in the company.

This diploma thesis focuses on the optimization of inventory control in a manufacturing company. Basic information about stocks and their possible kind of analysis are presented in the context of theoretical approaches. There was to introduce a production company and its products. Finally, based on the analysis of stocks, especially the production of components and their suppliers are designed ways of managing and storing supplies, which should contribute to the reduction of the stocks and the consequent reduction in costs.

The aim of this master thesis is to propose a new operation arrangements for the packaging of auto lights used in private vehicles. For this solution had been used a theoretical knowledge from large areas of logistics, production management, lean manufacturing methodologies, and even the practical experience and knowledge of the particular conditions of the company. Conducted research has detected a critical areas in the company and there was designed a system to remove them. The results of this study allow implementing certain measures, which will improve the company efficiency and increase its competitiveness.

The subject of this thesis is to propose a new inventory management system, that was found in particular company as one of the biggest shortages, which the company currently faces. The first part of thesis contains theoretical background focused on inventory management, expecially on function and types of supplies, ordering systems of supplies and on methods of their inventory. The second part focuses on the analysis of the current state in company processes. Following the theoretical part, there were suggested appropriate inventory management systems to simplify the work in warehousing and logistic, but also to bring economic benefits to the whole company. In addition to these proposals were included also possible solutions of less problematic processes.

This thesis deals with the business processes related to warehouse management in one of distribution centers of the brewing group in which this draft leads to an up-to-date solution to the use of new warehouse and infromation technologies.

Dans cette thèse nous nous intéressons à l'étude et à la résolution de problèmes d'optimisation dans le domaine du transport. La première problématique concerne le problème d'élaboration de tournées avec gestion des stocks, et nous considérons dans une seconde partie le problème du voyageur de commerce avec tirant d'eau. Nous avons développé des approches basées sur la recherche à voisinage variable pour résoudre ces problèmes NP-Difficiles, en proposant différentes structures de voisinages et schémas de résolution efficaces. L'évaluation globale des approches proposées sur des instances de la littérature montre leur efficacité. En particulier, nos algorithmes ont amélioré les résultats obtenus par les meilleures approches existantes pour ces deux problèmes. / This thesis deals with the study of optimization problems in the transportation domain. We first address the inventory routing problem and we consider the traveling salesman problem with draft limits in a second part. In both cases we have developed methods based on the variable neighborhood search to solve these NP-hard problems. We have proposed several efficient neighborhood structures and solving frameworks. The global evaluation of the proposed approach on sets of benchmarks available in the litterature shows a remarkable efficency and effectiveness. In particular, our algorithms have improved the results obtained by the current best approaches for these two problems.

All producing companies strive to deliver high-quality products to meet their customers’ requirements, to a reasonable price. In order for the companies to stay competitive, it is important to have an efficient flow through the production and therefore continually analyze and develop their own production. The master thesis was carried out at Strömsholmen AB (SAB), a company which produces and develops gas springs and hydraulic springs. Their production is made by a machining hall and an assembly hall, with a component inventory in between. SAB has a plan to upgrade their surface treatment process, the current bottleneck in the production. The goal with the thesis is to point out the future bottlenecks and constraints, furthermore, propose improvements for a more efficient flow. To discover the improvements, three research questions were asked. The first question refers to map out the current production and map the production when the surface treatment is upgraded. The second question is about finding the next bottleneck in the production with an increased order stock. The last question refers to the finding of improvements and the effects related to the production performance. In order to fulfill the purpose and answer the research questions, a literature survey was conducted and a collection of empirical data. The literature survey provided a connection to the existing theory and the study. The empirical data consists of quantitative data which illustrates the current production, the collected qualitative data gives a more in-depth knowledge about SAB’s production. The data has been collected through observations, semi-structed interviews and documentation. The analyze was built upon the five-why method, to find the root causes in the production. The empirical data established that SAB has a complex material flow through the production and a big assortment of components. Beyond that, the surface treatment process was verified as the current bottleneck of the production. When the surface treatment was upgraded, seven percent capacity was available until next machine group will reach the capacity cap. In the analyze, the current production and potential improvements were compared with the existing theories. The study pointed out the value creating and waste steps of the production and how to adjust the flow according to the value creating and waste steps. Further on, future bottlenecks were pointed out, the bottlenecks could discourage the potential to increase the order stock. Two distinguished results could be established from the analysis. First of all, it would be suitable to implement flow shop for A product’s (stands for 70% of the revenue) components that have the same material flow and go through the same machine groups. This would reduce the production throughput time and enable lower stock levels and thereby decrease the inventory carrying cost. The second result is considering how to eliminate the future bottlenecks in the production, this can be done with either sub-contractors or balance the workload. Consequently, this will enable an 20% increased order stock from the production. In addition to these two major improvements, several other improvements were found during the study which will affect SAB’s potential to gain more profit. The improvements include investigate the quality of their data, start performing forecast and review the number of products and components.