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...

Dieses Buch beleuchtet das Thema Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) aus einer praxisnahen und anschaulichen Perspektive, unterstützt durch verständliche Erläuterungen der theoretischen Grundlagen und zahlreiche Beispiele aus der Konsumgüterindustrie. Gezeigt wird, mit welchen Hebeln die...

Part 1: Critical Factors for Successful Global IT Service Organizations -- Part 2: Industrial Reformation -- Part 3: Tools for Immediate Optimization and Greater Efficiency -- Part 4: Structural Changes -- Part 5: Innovation Ecosystem -- Part 6: A Route for Industrial IT Production.

This book examines the problem of maintenance planning and scheduling in industrial production systems. It presents two practically relevant, deterministic mathematical models: the capacitated planned maintenance problem (CPMP) and the weighted uncapacitated planned maintenance problem (WUPMP)....

Philipp Plank analyses the question, what drives the quality of cost-systems and is the quality of cost-systems directly and at best positively related to the firms’ performance. In other words, is it worth investing in complex cost allocation systems or are there environmental and/or...

This book analyzes of the surplus of production capacity in China. According to a government statement, there is a serious surplus of productive capacity in the steel, cement, glass, aluminum, and shipbuilding industries. There was no surplus of productive capacity in above industries between...

Emil Kraft analyses the French capacity remuneration mechanism design and develops a capacity market model that draws upon an agent-based simulation. The capacity mechanism was implemented to mitigate the imminent risk to the security of supply and to complement the electricity markets. The...

Airlines follow different strategies of aircraft sourcing and financing. Basic decisions include the choice of buy versus lease and long term versus short term acquisition of aircraft. Additional fleet and fleet planning characteristics include the desired fleet size, average aircraft age, or...