This book examines the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) in process industries. In almost all process industries, there are situations where products have short/long setup times, and the setup of the product and its subsequent production are carried over, across consecutive periods. The...

This book examines how the norms, culture, and practices of the socio-economic Nordic model give them a competitive edge in globalized production chains. Using the Norwegian automotive industry - one of the most globalized industries in the world - as the empirical foundation of the book, it...

Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), and Advanced Planning Systems (APS) are important concepts in order to organize and optimize the flow of materials, information and financial funds. This book, already in its fifth edition, gives a broad and up-to-date overview of the...

Preface -- Introduction (Hartmut Stadtler, Christopher Haub) - Part I -- 1 The Frutado Case 11 (Bernhard Fleischmann) -- 2 Hierarchical Planning and the Supply Chain Planning Matrix (Hartmut Stadtler, Bernhard Fleischmann) -- 3 SAP® APO - Module Matrix and General Principles (Christopher...

Introduction -- Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Description -- Modeling and Analysis Tools -- Dispatching Approaches -- Deterministic Scheduling Approaches -- Order Release Approaches -- Production Planning Approaches -- Production Planning and Control Systems

Bei variantenreicher Fließproduktion können unterschiedliche Produkttypen auf einer gemeinsamen Fertigungslinie hergestellt werden. Durch die verschiedenen Produkttypen kann es dabei zu einem schwankenden Bedarf an Produktionskapazität kommen, der zu Ineffizienzen führt. Jan Dörmer...

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...

Disassembly is one of the key elements of any processing of recovered products. Be it for repair, remanufacturing, refurbishing, cannibalisation, material recycling, or disposal. Hence, planning the disassembly is important and—with growing amounts of recovered products and need for saving...

The scope of this book is limited to heuristics, metaheuristics, and approximate methods and algorithms as applied to planning and scheduling problems. While it is not possible to give a comprehensive treatment of this topic in one book, the aim of this work is to provide the reader with a...