Nach dem Boom der Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)-Softwarepaketein den 90‘er Jahren, die ihren Fokus auf der innerbetrieblichen Integrationund Optimierung von Geschäftsprozessen hatten, propagieren viele Softwareherstellerund Unternehmensberatungen nun Software zum SupplyChain Management,...

This paper proposes and tests an approximation of the solution of a class of piecewise deterministic control problems, typically used in the modeling of manufacturing flow processes. This approximation uses a stochastic programming approach on a suitably discretized and sampled system.(...)

One of the challenges in manufacturing companies nowadays is to enableappropriate IT support of production planning and execution. Integrated solutionsneed to cover company‐wide and even cross‐company business processes (fromorder receipt to product distribution) and at the same time live up...

Mixed-model assembly lines are of great practical relevance and are widelyused in a range of industries, such as the final assembly of the automotive andelectronics industries. Prior research mainly selected and discussed isolatedproblems rather than considering the whole planning process. In...

Durch die Verkürzung der Produktlebenszyklen und die damit verbundene steigendeAnzahl hochkomplexer Produktneuanläufe wird dem Anlaufmanagement künftig einewachsende Bedeutung zuteil. Diese Aussage wird durch die steigende Anzahl anAufsätzen und diversen Monographien zu diesem Themenkomplex...

The production planning with renewable resources faces several special problems compared tocommon planning methods with inputs which are “always available”. Due to their unsteadiness ingrowth, external influences like weather and natural resources and specific transport and...

The objective of this paper is to identify the impact of public and private agriculturalresearch on multi-output multi-input profit maximizing decisions of Midwestern farmers. The mainhypothesis is that investments in public and private R&D shift outward the supply curves for cropand livestock...

In this paper we study the integration of production, transportation and storage decisions ina multi plant-distribution center supply chain structure. Multiple plants produce one type ofitem, each of them with different production capacity and costs, and send finished goods tothe distribution...

We consider the single item lot-sizing problem with capacities that are non-decreasing overtime. When the cost function is i) non-speculative or Wagner-Whitin (for instance, constantunit production costs and non-negative unit holding costs), and ii) the production set-upcosts are non-increasing...