Optimal Production and Inventory Policy in a Multiproduct Bakery Unit

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper deals with the optimal production and inventory policy in a bakery. A kind case study is presented. This paper is well written and the analysis is addressed in a suitable way. 

However, I do not recommend the paper for publication in its present form. As the authors stated, there are not sufficient works about production and inventory problems in the food industry sector. However, the authors should state clearly the differences from existing studies, especially research on perishable items. For example, "A two-phased perishable inventory model for production planning in a food industry " can be referred.

In summary, the section on literature review should be supplemented to emphasize the excellence and differences from previous works.

Author Response

We thank the reviewers for the comments that helped to improve the quality of the paper, and our response is in the attached file.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper is well-written, including its structure, problem formulation, methodology used, results presented, etc. However, the authors could consider to clarify in the paper the following issues:

• The comparison of results between the presented approaches (deterministic consumption without inventory control and stochastic consumption with delayed inventory control) and the simple arithmetic average in the context of estimating the cost of production, setup, inventory and quality. To what extent the presented approaches are more precise than the simple average?
• What about faulty products? Does the presented approach embrace the cost of faulty products that appear in the production process?
• What do the dotted lines mean in Figure 4 and 6?
• The Fig. 5a and 5b have the same shape. I suggest inserting one chart and correcting the description, relevantly.
• The word “costumers” instead “customers” is mentioned a few times on page 6, including Figure 3.

Author Response

We thank the reviewer for the comments that helped to improve the quality of manuscript, and our response is in the attached file.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper is improved with the points that I pointed out.