Several authors agree on the importance of integrating sales and operations (S & OP) when it comes to improving management organisations. Thus, relationship between S OP can be critical from a competitive point view, therefore strategic. However, most literature this topic focuses field repetitive manufacturing. Consequently, work aims enhance scarce related in organisations that produce ma...

The successful implementation of supply chain management depends on many soft issues (strategic/behavioural) such as organizational resistance to change, inter-functional conflicts, joint production planning, profit sharing, team oriented performance measures, channel power shift, information sharing, real time communication, inventory and technical compatibility (Min & Zhou 2002). Many of the ...

This paper presents a state-of-the-art survey of the operations research models developed for internal audit planning. Two alternative approaches have been followed in the literature for audit planning: (1) identifying the optimal audit frequency; and (2) determining the optimal audit resource allocation. The first approach identifies the elapsed time between two successive audits, which can be...

Linear programming is a tool that has yet to reach its full potential in power system engineering. To illustrate in a tutorial style how it is currently being applied and how its use evolved, applications are outlined in three areas: generation scheduling, loss minimization through allocation of reactive power supply, and planning of capital investments in generation equipment. The applications...

Demand data is integral to a company s overall information requirement. This is particularly true for manufacturers and retailers with regard to capacity, production, and inventory planning. Notwithstanding the implicit inaccuracies encountered, companies are predisposed to employ sales data as a primary source of information for estimating future

This chapter provides a summary of the planning and scheduling decisions for outpatient procedure centers. A summary and background of outpatient procedure centers and their operations is provided along with the challanges faced by managers. Planning and scheduling decisions are discussed and categorized as either long or short term decisions. Examples and results are drawn from the literature ...

Nowadays operational research (OR) claims to be known as the science of better by the scientific community and by the industry. OR provides a set of techniques and tools for thinking, analysing and solving, which leads to taking decisions in a structured and focused way towards efficiency and optimality. Due to these aspects, the advance of telecommunications research has been strongly linked t...

This paper proposes new research themes concerning decision support in intermodal transport. Decision support models have been constructed for private stakeholders (e.g. network operators, drayage operators, terminal operators or intermodal operators) as well as for public actors such as policy makers and port authorities. Intermodal research topics include policy support, terminal network desi...

In many domains, planning and scheduling problems have been considered separately. This historical decomposition leads to sub-optimal solving methods as task scheduling and planning share important sub-problems. In fact, on practical examples, there is no reason to separate coordination of activities and synchronization tasks. Furthermore, resource usage is not only relevant for task scheduling...