| Article ID: | iaor2003557 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 307 |
| End Page Number: | 328 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Journal: | Zeitschrift fr Planung |
| Authors: | Corsten H., Gssinger R., Schneiker K. |
| Keywords: | scheduling |
Due to uncertain demand and resource availability customer-order-driven production planning has to take aspects of flexibility into account. To meet these real conditions of production processes in this article the principles of opportunistic scheduling are applied. An analysis of a periodical planning approach shows the ways of integrating these principles into a modified model.