Satisfying customer demand necessitates manufacturers understanding the importance of Available-To-Promise (ATP). It directly links available resources to customer orders and has significant impact on overall performance of a supply chain. In this paper, an improvement of the batch-mode ATP function in which the partial fulfillment of the orders is available will be proposed. In other words, in...

In this paper, we study a generalized production planning problem, that simultaneously investigates the two decisions that play critical roles in most firms, namely, production planning and order splitting and assignment. The problem takes into consideration the production time windows and capacities. We formulate the integrated problem as a linear mixed-integer program with a minimized total c...

Software development for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is challenging due to characteristics of sensor nodes and the environment they are deployed in. Testing software in a real WSN testbed allows users to get reliable test results. However, real testbeds become more expensive as the number of sensor nodes in the network grows. Simulation tools are alternatives to real testbeds. They are chea...

The aim of the paper is presentation of hybrid systems application in the support of decision processes including its practical application in such areas of business activity as marketing, production planning, retail banking. The considerations were directed at dynamically growing research area concerning hybrid cognitive architecture.

in this paper, a hybrid method for limited resource allocation and leveling in complex multi-stage, multi-product and multi-period production planning problems with aim of lot-size determination and total cost minimization has been proposed. this problem consists of multiple products with sequential production processes that are produced in different periods to meet the customers demand. by det...

In this paper, the hybrid production planning & control method Double Speed Single Production Line (DSSPL) is presented, modeled and its performances evaluated and compared to classical Production Planning and Control methods (PPC). DSSPL combines JIT/kanban and Material Requirement Planning for the production of different classes of products (Aand B-items based on a market or customer oriented...