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...

Produktionswirtschaftliche Grundlagen der chemischen Industrie -- Reaktive Anlagenbelegungsplanung -- Entwicklung einer systemgestützten Reschedulingmethodik -- Entwicklung alternativer reaktiver Planungsverfahren -- Praktische Erprobung -- Schlussbetrachtung und Ausblick.

Einführung -- Materialplanung bei konventioneller und kreislaufgeführter Produktion -- Materialplanung bei externen Produktkreisläufen -- Materialplanung bei internen Produktkreisläufen -- Schlussbetrachtung.

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...

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...

Part 1. Modelling -- 1.Reference Models -- Chapter 2.Mathematical Models -- Chapter 3.Production Bottlenecks Models -- 4. Multi-Criteria Models and Decision Making -- 5.Planning Inputs -- 6.Demand Forecasting -- 7.Examples of Advanced Planning Models -- Part II. Planning Processes --...

Introduction -- Assembly Systems -- Some Fundamentals -- Preliminary Planning -- Inventory Replenishments -- Single Model Assembly -- Mixed Model Make-to-Stock Assembly -- Mixed Model Make-to-Order Assembly -- Postponement Assembly -- One Station Assembly -- Similarity Index -- Learning Curves.