Workforce planning in a lotsizing mail processing problem
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Workforce planning in a lotsizing mail processing problem
The treatment of mail objects in a mail processing centre involves many operations, in particular sorting by destination. Out of the batching problem that we can identify in such a process, there are also sta4 planning concerns. In this paper, we analyse a treatment area (registered mail) belonging to a mail processing center, where mail objects are treated in a chain production process. The pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Computers & Operations Research
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0305-0548
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2004.04.011