Inventory control in a supply chain is crucial for companies desiring to satisfy their customers
demands as well as controlling costs. This paper examines specifically supply planning …

Integrated hospitals need a central planning and control system to plan patients' processes
and the required capacity. Given the changes in healthcare one can ask the question what …

Non-deterministic lot-sizing models are considered which serve for an explicit determination
of lot sizes in an uncertain environment. Taxonomy components for such models are …

In literature, most papers examine several stochastic demand processes where order lead
times are constant. In reality, manufacturing firms use inventory management software …

This paper discusses the significance of the enterprise systems and simulation integration in
improving shop floor's short-term production planning capability. The ultimate objectives are …

The planning and decision support capabilities of the manufacturing planning and control
system, which provides the core of any enterprise resource planning package, can be …

Currently, workflow technology is widely used to facilitate the business process in enterprise
information systems (EIS), and it has the potential to reduce design time, enhance product …

This article proposes a supporting framework for the implementation of the material control
system POLCA (paired-cell overlapping loops of cards with authorization). The POLCA …

In this paper, we consider a multi-period, multi-product production planning problem where
the production rate and the customer service level are random variables due to machine …

As mass customization companies grow their business, the amount of custom information
required to run the business increases. This paper proposes an information technology (IT) …