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Organizational Consultant: Creating a Useable Theory for Organizational Design

Baligh, Helmy H.; Burton, Richard M.; Obel, Børge - In: Management Science 42 (1996) 12, pp. 1648-1662

Organization theory is a positive science; organizational design is a normative science "concerned with how things ought to be, with devising structures to attain goals." The Organizational Consultant is a knowledge base expert system to help design organizations. That is, it takes facts about the...

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Robust Storage Assignment in Unit-Load Warehouses

Ang, Marcus; Lim, Yun Fong; Sim, Melvyn - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 11, pp. 2114-2130

Assigning products to and retrieving them from proper storage locations are crucial decisions in minimizing the operating cost of a unit-load warehouse. The problem becomes intractable when the warehouse faces variable supply and uncertain demand in a multiperiod setting. We assume a...

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Note: An Improvement to the Dynamic Cycle Lengths Heuristic for Scheduling the Multi-Item, Single-Machine

Leachman, Robert C.; Xiong, Zhong K.; Gascon, André; … - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 9, pp. 1201-1205

A heuristic scheduling policy for multi-item, single-machine scheduling systems facing stochastic, time-varying demands was previously introduced by Leachman and Gascon. In this technical note we provide an improvement to the calculations of the policy. Simulation tests of the revised version of...

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Effects of Setup and Processing Time Reductions on WIP in the JIT Production Systems

Samaddar, Subhashish; Kaul, Tej - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 7, pp. 1263-1265

Sarkar and Zangwill (S-Z, [Sarkar, D., W. I. Zangwill. 1991. Variance effects in cyclic production systems. Management … the merits of such a warning for JIT production systems are questionable. If we treat a setup as a PERT network, it is …

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A Modeling Framework for Coordinating Promotion and Production Decisions within a Firm

Sogomonian, Aram G.; Tang, Christopher S. - In: Management Science 39 (1993) 2, pp. 191-203

This paper presents a modeling framework for evaluating the benefits of coordinating promotion and production decisions … production. The modeling framework consists of the development of a baseline model and an integrated model. In the baseline … (integrated) model, the firm would consider those promotion and production decisions separately (jointly). For each of the models …

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Coordinating Investment, Production, and Subcontracting

Mieghem, Jan A. Van - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 7, pp. 954-971

production and sales. We analyze and present outsourcing conditions for three contract types: (1) price-only contractswhere an ex …

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File and Work Transfers in Cyclic Queue Systems

Sarkar, D.; Zangwill, W. I. - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 10, pp. 1510-1523

A cyclic queue has one server and n nodes, where each node has its own distinct type of customers that arrive from the outside. The server visits the nodes cyclically, serving the customers first at node 1, then at node 2, and so on through node n, and then repeating from node 1 again. Setup...

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Feasibility of Scheduling Lot Sizes of Three Products on One Machine

Glass, Celia A. - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 10, pp. 1482-1494

allows cyclic production of several products on a single facility so as to minimize holding and set up costs. We consider the …

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Competition and Structure in Serial Supply Chains with Deterministic Demand

Corbett, Charles J.; Karmarkar, Uday S. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 7, pp. 966-978

derive expressions for prices and production quantities as functions of the number of entrants at each tier of a multitier …

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Ordering and Production Decisions with Supply Quality and Demand Uncertainty

Bassok, Y.; Akella, R. - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 12, pp. 1556-1574

In this paper, we solve a production planning problem that has a direct bearing on the cost to a facility of vendor … the optimal production level, and the raw material order quantity which minimize the total expected cost subject to … capacity and release level constraints. The results obtained by our model (the integrated model) show that the production level …

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