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Ranganath Gootypalle, plant in-charge of two of HVL's plants in Hyderabad, India was concerned about the rising inventory costs at his plants. He believed that the cost could be contained if he had a better way of planning the production in his plants. The customer orders varied in terms of product specifications, order size and showed seasonal fluctuations. His managers’ ability to understand the demand patterns and plan the production capacity accordingly was the key challenge in containing the costs. He decided to give this problem as an internship project to one of the recently joined interns Venkata Sairam and asked him to create aggregate plans for products produced in one of the cells of a plant in Hyderabad.