Introduction -- Literature Review -- Single-Stage Service Level and Tardiness Model -- Simultaneous Capacity and Planned Lead Time Optimization -- Optimal Composition of Number and Size of Machines -- Service Level Constraint Models -- Conclusion.

Insbesondere für Industrieunternehmen sind produktionsbezogene Make-or-buy-Entscheidungen auf Grund ihrer unmittelbaren Erfolgswirksamkeit und des Einflusses auf die langfristige Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von hoher Bedeutung. Dies spiegelt sich nicht zuletzt in einer Vielzahl von Empfehlungen für...

In the consumer packaged goods industry, usually a large number of final items are produced in a highly automated flow line production system. Florian Seeanner presents a mathematical model which is an improved version of the General Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Problem for Multiple production...

Introduction -- City Logistics -- Attended Home Delivery -- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining -- Analysis of Floating Car Data -- Provision of Distance Matrices -- Evaluation of Information Models -- Routing in City Logistics -- Evaluation of Optimization Models -- Conclusions and Outlook

This book describes and demonstrates how SAP® APO can be used to tackle real optimization problems arising in industry. In a unique combination it deals with the aspects of model-building as well as with the implementation in commercial supply chain management software, SAP APO being a typical...

On the basis of an analysis conducted in a freight forwarding company, Marta Anna Krajewska identifies two levels of improving logistics performance. First, she demonstrates that on the local level the automated operational transportation planning increases the planning quality and influences...

The complexity of distribution systems is augmented by various trends: globalization of the manufacturing industry, rising customer demands, and the reverse flows within closed-loop systems. In this light, the need for 'advanced' planning methods that are based on quantitative optimization is...