Promotions are an integral part of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. Anywhere between 30-40% of the sales volumes are achieved through various promotions. Promotions are instrumental in creating brand visibility and awareness. In this study, we attempt to analyse the impact of...

This paper presents branch-and-bound algorithms developed for an m-machine permutation flowshop to minimise the maximum weighted flowtime/maximum weighted tardiness/maximum sum of weighted flowtime and weighted tardiness/maximum sum of weighted flowtime, weighted tardiness and weighted earliness...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a key strategic approach for increasing organisational effectiveness and the realisation of organisational goals. Effectively selecting and evaluating suppliers and managing their involvement in the supply chain are some of the capabilities that enable Original...

The Economic Lot Scheduling Problem (ELSP) on a single facility (or machine) with the time-varying lot-sizes approach and with sequence-independent/sequence-dependent setup times of parts or products is studied in this paper. The objective is to minimise the long-run average inventory carrying...

In this paper, we consider the problem of cell-formation in cellular manufacturing systems with the objective of maximising the grouping efficacy. We propose an Ant-Colony Optimisation (ACO) algorithm to obtain machine-cells and part-families. The Proposed ACO (PACO) algorithm is tested by using...

The Economic Lot Scheduling Problem (ELSP) on a single facility (or machine) with the time-varying lot-sizes approach and with sequence-independent/sequence-dependent setup times of parts or products is studied in this paper. The objective is to minimise the long-run average inventory carrying...