Integrated project task and manpower scheduling

Integrated project task and manpower scheduling

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Article ID: iaor19992292
Country: United States
Volume: 29
Issue: 9
Start Page Number: 711
End Page Number: 717
Publication Date: Sep 1997
Journal: IIE Transactions
Authors: ,
Keywords: personnel & manpower planning
Abstract:

The objective of project task scheduling is to determine task start dates and durations to complete a project on time with the minimum cost of performing tasks plus overhead. By altering task start dates and durations, the daily labor-demand profile can be changed. The objective of personnel scheduling is to determine how many workers must be assigned to each feasible days-off tour to satisfy a given labor-demand profile with minimum labor cost. Integrating these two problems permits the simultaneous determination of start dates, durations, labor levels and required tours for a minimum-cost and on-time schedule. Both integer programming and heuristic solution procedures to solve the integrated problem are presented. In a series of 20 test problems, the heuristic procedure outperformed the traditional two-step scheduling procedure by reducing the cost of labor and overhead by 8.6%.

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