purchase amount over a given period of time without specifying the exact time of purchase. Other than time flexibility, the … suppliers may offer "quantity flexibility" to the firm as well, i.e., purchase quantities could be within a prespecified … the exploitation of quantity flexibility in such contracts. Our discussion illustrates how time flexibility, quantity …

give more precise definition to the concept of criticality of an activity, and introduce the new concept of flexibility of …

an architecture that facilitates development process flexibility. We provide examples from our fieldwork to support this …

consistently perform near optimally. Using these heuristics, we perform experiments on the effect of operating flexibility on … project duration, where resource flexibility is measured by the number of resources available per activity, and the form of … flexibility on project duration. For instance, it is found that when the flexible capabilities of the resources are evenly …

Various models have been developed over the years to analyze the many facets of the flexibility of production and … operations systems. This paper proposes a general framework for the modeling and analysis of flexibility. The argument hinges … upon the distinction between flexibility---a property of the technology---and diversity---a property of the environment in …

be reduced to an equivalent substitution flexibility problem without those dedicated components. This significant …

flexibility. Contrary to the intuition also prevalent in the academic literature, we show that it can be advantageous to invest in …

Process flexibility, whereby a production facility can produce multiple products, is a critical design consideration in … multiproduct supply chains facing uncertain demand. The challenge is to determine a cost-effective flexibility configuration that … flexibility in multistage supply chains. We find two phenomena, stage-spanning bottlenecks and floating bottlenecks, neither of …