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In any organization, there are many stakeholders, whosepoints of view should be taken into account when planning.The involvement of dierent stakeholders in thedecision making process is an important feature to beconsidered, not only for interpretation and making decisionsbased on their judgment, but also for their participationin research and the decision making process.A decision is evaluated as a suitable decision when allstakeholders are satised with the nal decision, whichmeans that the stakeholders should reach a consensuson the decision. Stakeholder participation in the decisionmaking process enhances respect for their opinions,as well as improving the learning process in the organizationand better understanding of the studied system.Involvement of dierent stakeholders can improve theperception of a problem because of their diverse information,which may be ignored in the presence of justone stakeholder. Therefore, in any planning, it is necessaryto consider all stakeholder objectives to reacha compromise. Stakeholder objectives may be in con-ict with each other, and a production plan based on just one stakeholder, however important he/she may be, may create problems in the organization. To overcome these problems, this paper intends to provide a set of linear programming models for each individual stakeholder, with their objectives, in order to discover whether or not stakeholder viewpoints are identical. If the solutions of the models are the same, then, we can claim there are no major con icts between the stakeholders. Otherwise, it is necessary to aggregate the individual models to obtain a unique model and, therefore, a single solution. To do this, a multi-objective programming model is established, which is an aggregation of individual linear programming models, in order to consider dierent stakeholder objectives. Solution of the aggregated model, using the LP metric method, can provide the nal solution for an organization that satises stakeholder viewpoints as much as possible. The aim of the paper is to provide a methodology to consider dierent stakeholder viewpoints, with their objectives, in discontinuous production planning systems. Aggregation of individual stakeholder models to obtain a unique solution has been studied via multi-objective programming. The methodology has been applied to an electrical manufacturing company to show the abilities of the methodology. The results of the study show that company stakeholders are relatively satised with the solutions. However, there is some small dissatisfaction, which may always exist.