Journal: Production and Operations Management

Found 669 papers in total
Two and three stage flowshop scheduling with no wait in process
2000,
In this paper we study the time complexities of some two- and three-stage no-wait...
Combined production and maintenance scheduling for a multiple-product, single machine production system
2000,
Traditionally, the problems of equipment maintenance scheduling and production...
Supply contracts with periodic, stationary commitment
2000,
The purpose of this paper is to model and analyze supply contracts with periodical...
An evaluation of order picking policies for mail order companies
2000,
This paper is concerned with the problem of order picking in mail order companies....
A review of flowshop scheduling research with setup times
2000,
Flowshop scheduling problems with setup times arise naturally in many practical...
Optimal and heuristic solutions for the multi-item newsvendor problem with a single capacity constraint
2000,
This research considers a multi-item newsvendor problem with a single capacity...
Performance analysis of an assembly station with input from multiple fabrication lines
2000,
We develop analytical models for performance evaluation of Fabrication/Assembly (F/A)...
Robustness of various production control policies in semiconductor manufacturing
2000,
This paper compares several different production control policies in terms of their...
Economic process control under uncertainty
2000,
The future of the global industry lies in the continuous improvement of both products...
The market share impact of service failures
1999,
This paper develops a simple but powerful model that relates service...
Resource allocation to improve service quality perceptions in multistage service systems
1999,
Service quality improvement has become an imperative in today's service firms. In this...
Measurement of multiple sites in service firms with data envelopment analysis
1999,
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has become an increasingly popular method to measure...
Empirical evaluation of exponential and independence assumptions in queueing models of manufacturing systems
1999,
This paper presents actual data (processing times, interarrival times,...
Simultaneous batching and scheduling for chemical processing with earliness and tardiness penalities
1999,
We consider the problem of determining the allocation of demand from different...
Retail inventory control with lost sales, service constraints, and fractional lead times
1999,
This paper describes a periodic review, fixed lead time, single-product,...
Throughput time reduction: Taking one's medicine
1999,
Managing throughput time and its relation to work-in-process (WIP) inventory and...
Optimality of state-dependent (s,S) policies in inventory models with Markov-modulated demand and lost sales
1999,
Markov-modulated processes have been used in stochastic inventory models with setup...
An overview of tradeoff curves in manufacturing systems design
1999,
In this paper we review the use of tradeoff curves in the design of manufacturing...
A comparison of production scheduling policies on costs, service level and schedule changes
1999,
We consider a single product, single level, stochastic master production scheduling (...
Reliability-constrained pricing, capacity, and quality: an illustration of economic concepts to postal services
1999,
A model is developed from which welfare-optimal prices, capacities, and reliabilities...
Demand management: The evaluation of price and due date negotiation strategies using simulation
1999,
The research considers the problem of demand management in a firm where the firm's...
Insights on service system design from a normal approximation to Erlang's delay formula
1998,
We show how a simple normal approximation to Erlang's delay formula can be used to...
Production scheduling of continuous flow lines: Multiple products with setup times and costs
1998,
The problem of production planning and setup scheduling of multiple products on a...
The impact of simple priority rule combinations on delivery speed and delivery reliability in a hybrid shop
1998,
This study examines the effects of using different priority rules at different stages...
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