Planning production and working time within an annualised hours scheme framework
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Planning production and working time within an annualised hours scheme framework
Production flexibility is essential for industrial companies that have to deal with seasonal demand. Human resources are one of the main sources of flexibility. Annualising working hours (i.e., the possibility of irregularly distributing the total number of working hours over the course of a year) is a tool that provides organisations with flexibility; it enables a firm to adapt production capa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Operations Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0254-5330,1572-9338
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-007-0211-3