Keyword: flexibility

Found 22 papers in total
Demi-flexible operating policies to promote the performance of public transit in low-demand areas
2015,
The efforts of providing attractive transport service to residents in sparse...
Comprehensive view of logistics flexibility and its impact on customer satisfaction
2014,
The volatility and uncertainty in internal and external environment has made logistics...
A process model for analyzing and managing flexibility in information systems
2014,
Competitive pressures are forcing organizations to be flexible. Being responsive to...
Validating dimensions of operations flexibility in Malaysian service firms: a confirmatory factor analytics approach
2013,
The main objective of this study was to examine the dimensions of operations...
Flexible approach to patients satisfaction: a case of Indian private hospitals
2013,
Access, availability, quality and cost‐effective healthcare services are the...
Investigation of supply chain flexibility using a forced field analysis – a case study
2012,
Today's supply chains are operating in complex, risky, ambiguous and uncertain...
Enhancing effects of manufacturing flexibility through operational absorptive capacity and operational ambidexterity
2012,
A large body of research investigates how manufacturing flexibility in uncertain...
Strategic approach to manage supply chain flexibility: a proposal
2012,
Todays Supply Chains (SCs) are operating in complex and competitive business...
A memetic algorithm based on a NSGAII scheme for the flexible job-shop scheduling problem
2010,
The Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem is concerned with the determination of a...
An empirical examination of advanced manufacturing technology and sourcing practices in developing manufacturing flexibilities
2008,
Manufacturing flexibility is widely recognised as a critical component to achieving a...
Improving the path to align sales, production planning and engineering in high-variety versatile environment
2004,
Versatile manufacturing companies typically manufacture high variety, mainly...
Flexibility analysis: a methodology and a case study
2002,
A methodology for analysing manufacturing flexibility is proposed. A real-life case is...
Valuation of product-mix flexibility using real options
2002,
Flexibility in manufacturing operations is becoming increasingly more important to...
Rethinking the management of flexibility – a study in the aerospace defence industry
2002,
The concept of flexibility as a managed performance measure is explored through case...
Multi-level heterogeneous worker flexibility in a Dual Resource Constrained (DRC) job-shop
2001,
The majority of research on labour flexibility in a DRC job-shop has focused on the...
Trade-offs among the elements of flexibility: A comparison from the automotive industry
2000,
Flexibility has long been recognized as a manufacturing capability that has the...
Flexibility and pricing decisions for high-volume products with short life cycles
1998,
We examine the competitive implications of a firm's ability to change over its...
The effect of process flexibility on productivity for classes of similar job shops
1998,
Process flexibility permits alternative operations for a manufacturing task. When each...
Manufacturing flexibility at the plant level
1996,
Mangers have two basic alternatives for addressing the challenge posed by variable...
The measurement of manufacturing flexibility
1992,
In this paper the authors report the development of an instrument for measuring and...
Manufacturing flexibility and profitability
1993,
Flexibility is one of four basic dimensions of a manufacturing strategy, the others...
On measurement and valuation of manufacturing flexibility
1993,
The concept of flexibility has been a recurring theme in recent manufacturing...
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