Sales forecasting plays a prominent role in business planning and business strategy. The value and importance of advance information is a cornerstone of planning activity, and a well-set forecast goal can guide sale-force more efficiently. A forecasting usually depends on many factors such as the product feature, supply chain constrain, market demand, market share, promotion strategy, competiti...

An advanced planning and scheduling (APS) systems is defined as any computer program that uses advanced mathematical algorithms or logic to perform optimization, and/or simulation on finite capacity scheduling, sourcing, capital planning, resource planning, forecasting, demand planning and others. The expectations of APS systems have been high, both from academia and industry in the subject are...

Due to the progress of high technology, TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor – Liquid Crystal Display) has been widely put in use recently. The manufacturing technology of the TFT-LCD industry mainly consists of array, cell, module processes, in which there exists special characteristics such as different objectives of individual process’s scheduling, complexity of manufacturing processes, and multi-s...

Purpose Drawing on information processing theory, the linkage between buffering and bridging ability part of procurement to resolve demand–supply imbalances is investigated, as well contexts in which these strategies may be particularly useful or detrimental. Buffering achieved through demand change redundancy, while by means collaboration monitoring. Design/methodology/approach This study empl...

Embotelladoras ARCA was formed in 2001 by integrating three of the oldest bottlers in Mexico and became the second largest bottler of Coca-Cola products in Latin America. The company distributes its products in the northern region of Mexico and, since 2008, in the north of Argentina and Ecuador. The company have soft-drink sales of more than 1.2 billion unit cases and ranks as the third-largest...

Modeling and optimal solving of supply chain management problems lead to efficient decision making in strategic planning and supply chain operations, resulting in a competitive advantage. Today, with the planning of a sustainable supply chain, in addition to achieving economic goals, it is possible to meet social and environmental objectives and considerations. This research deal with sustainab...

Chemotherapy operations planning and scheduling Ayten Turkcan a , Bo Zeng b & Mark Lawley c a Northeastern University, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 02115, Boston, MA, USA b University of South Florida, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Tampa, FL, USA c Purdue University, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, USA Accepted author version posted online...

We develop multi-dimensional balancing algorithms to compute provably near-optimal capacity-expansion policies. These are the first approximation algorithms for multi-machine, multi-product systems facing stochastic, non-stationary and correlated demands. Our approach is computationally efficient and guaranteed to produce a policy with total expected cost no more than twice that of an optimal p...