Article ID: | iaor201043 |
Volume: | 61 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 321 |
End Page Number: | 331 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2009 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Corominas A, Olivella J, Pastor R |
Keywords: | programming: linear |
This paper presents, formalizes and classifies working time accounts (WTAs), a means of achieving flexible production capacity through the flexible organization of working time. We propose linear programming models to plan working time, using WTA, at companies in the service industry. A computational experiment shows that the models can be solved for any capacity planning problems of reasonable size.