Found 97029 papers in total
Inventory control: The MURCO way
1989,
The MURCO stock forecasting and inventory management system has been developed by Datasolve Limited and...
Technology in services-Past myths and future challenges
1988,
Common misperceptions about services are that they are low-value-added, small-scale,...
The effects of imposed learning curves on performance improvements
1988,
The results of a recent empirical study aimed at investigating the interacting effects of imposed goals,...
Nearest-neighbour rules for emergency services
1988,
A policy for allocating each demand for an emergency service, arising within a region, to a currently...
Solving a large scale districting problem: A case report
1988,
The paper deals with the problem of defining the territories for 168 sales agents of a German manufacturer...
An approach to automated generation of fourth normal form for relational database
1988,
A new approach to the logical design of 4NF database scheme, which can be easily automated, is proposed....
Stable sales objective and commission policy in an open system
1987,
We study a firm where customers move from a buying class to another according to fixed transition...
Competitive dealing strategy and deal value escalation
1988,
This note is an extension of ‘A Mathematical Model for Price Promotions’. That paper derived...
Market analysis-An opportunity for OR?
1989,
As marketing has evolved from ‘mass marketing’ into ‘niche marketing’, less...
Multi-performance measures for better operational control
1989,
Operational and financial measures deserve comparable attention. They both reveal information needed for...
The adoption of the M-form organizational structure: A test of imitation hypothesis
1988,
The study of organizational adoption of administrative innovations has been generally guided by the...
The management of the end-user environment: An empirical investigation
1988,
An empirical study of 212 end-users in 31 organizations was conducted to investigate the adequacy of...
Planning for idle time: A rationale for underutilization of capacity
1988,
This paper presents an argument that since the proportion of product cost which represents direct labour...
Productivity improvement: An important issue for private and public sector organisations
1988,
This article discusses current productivity improvement issues facing organisations in the U.K. and...
Stochastic Petri net models for performance evaluation of automated manufacturing systems
1988,
In the design and operation of automated manufacturing systems, performance evaluation plays a key role...
An evaluation of a full-/part-time tour scheduling methodology
1988,
With the increasing emphasis on improving service sector staff scheduling, many organisations have turned...
Graph controlled table Lindenmayer systems
1988,
A new type of Lindenmayer systems-graph controlled table Lindenmayer system-is introduced and studied....
Algorithms and planning horizons for a one-plant multi-retailer system
1988,
This paper examines a deterministic, discrete-time, finite-horizon, production/distribution problem for a...
A least commitment approach to avoiding protection violations in nonlinear planning
1988,
We suggest one alternative approach to creating a valid plan in which all temporal constraints are...
Reasoning about the effects of actions in automated planning systems
1988,
This paper describes a temporal reasoning system that supports deductions for modeling the physics (i.e....
A task and resource scheduling system for automated planning
1988,
Planning is done at both the strategic and tactical levels. This paper classifies some previous planning...
A prolog-based decision support system for computer capacity planning
1988,
This paper describes a project to implement a decision support system for computer capacity planning. The...
Implementing integrated production and distribution planning systems
1988,
The development and implementation of an integrated production and distribution planning system requires...
Performance evaluation of flexible manufacturing systems taking into account breakdowns and maintenance
1987,
Few of known mathematical methods to compute the flexible manufacturing systems performances take in...
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