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OR and the Social Sciences
1990,
The text is the opening address of the conference on OR and the Social Sciences organized by the...
Quantity versus timing change in open order: A critical evaluation
1986,
This article discusses the difficulties involved in the management of open orders, presents alternative...
Controlling bulk issues in an MRP environment
1986,
Bulk-issues materials and parts are problematic for a manufacturing organization because the stockroom...
The evaluation of safety stock
1986,
Many companies set safety stock levels for all items in a group to provide the same level of service. In...
A minimum production lot-size formula for stockless production
1986,
Recent books and articles on just-in-time manufacturing, zero inventories, or stockless production...
A practical example of a multi-attribute decision aiding technique
1990,
The marketing and business development representatives of major construction firms operating abroad...
Lot size versus schedule disruption
1986,
This case study attempts to bridge the scientist/manager gap. A real industrial problem is identified, and...
Can holding costs be over-stated for just-in-time manufacturing systems?
1986,
This article questions the overstatement of holding costs in zero inventory systems epoused by previous...
Is it time for a physical exam of your materials requirement planning system?
1986,
Manufacturing companies spend significant time and money implementing MRP systems, often without achieving...
Use of the EOQ model for inventory analysis
1986,
This article is an evaluation conducted by survey of the critical assumptions of the EOQ model used in...
A review of lot-sizing techniques for deterministic time-varying demand
1986,
Three major groups of lot-sizing techniques are covered: (1) those minimizing holding and setup costs over...
Visions and realities: MRP as ‘system’
1986,
The high incidence of MRP system failure is a matter of great concern. This article raises some...
Optimal solution and graphical analysis for single-level discrete-demand lot sizing
1986,
This article presents an equation for determining the optimum solution for any single-level...
Survey of MRP nervousness issues
1986,
New problems have been identified with the implementation of MRP systems. Software packages include many...
A nomograph for EOQs with delayed billing offers
1986,
In the first quarter 1986 issue, the authors developed methods to determine optimal order quantities when...
Calculating holding costs for single-level discrete-demand lot sizing
1986,
The three methods generally used for calculating holding costs in the single-level discrete-demand lot...
Perspectives on parallel computing
1989,
Operations research is one problem domain that is likely to benefit from advances in parallel computing....
A graphical method for optimizing a continuous review inventory system
1986,
The series of graphs developed in this article can be used to identify optimal safety stock, shipment...
A modified LIMIT method for determining optimum lot sizes
1986,
The original LIMIT method adjusts EOQ lot sizes for a group of items to allow for capacity restrictions....
Finding lot sizes for materials used in projects
1986,
Project managers have usually given little attention to the cost reductions available through careful...
MRP re-implementation
1986,
While much has been written on implementing MRP, little has been published about MRP re -implementation....
Two-level master scheduling: Setting the level of option overplanning and measuring inventory reduction
1986,
How to determine the proper amount of overplanning, and how to measure or demonstrate the amount of...
Lot sizing through the Fordyce-Webster heuristic
1986,
The Fordyce-Webster algorithm is a heuristic obtained by allowing quantity discounts and applying the...
Economic order quantities for systems with step-function ordering costs
1986,
An easily programmed method to deal with EOQs with increasing ordering costs as a function of order size...
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