This paper reports the development, installation and evaluation of a simulation which sequences shop operations for the next shift. Simulation outputs give each foreman the priority of jobs currently in his section and those jobs which might be coming through his area during the next work...

This case describes a warehouse-expansion project in a large food company's distribution network. The decision is complicated by the operational trade-off among three alternatives that have almost identical NPVs but that vary from high investment/low operating costs to low investment/high...