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A Hybrid Push/Pull Production Control System for Multistage Manufacturing Processes
Hirakawa, Yasuhiro; Hoshino, Kyoji; Katayama, Hiroshi - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 12 (1992) 4, pp. 69-81
Recently, it has been recognized that production control systems for multi‐stage manufacturing processes can be classified into push‐type and pull‐type systems. The push‐type systems are commonly defined as those types of materials requirements planning system which utilize the forecast...
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The Flexibilities of Push and Pull
Slack, Nigel; Correa, Henrique - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 12 (1992) 4, pp. 82-92
Examines two differing manufacturing operations and characterizes their manufacturing planning and control (MPC) systems. The primary concern of this categorization analysis is to examine the similarities and differences between the flexibilities inherent in each operation′s MPC system. One...
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Integrating production activity control into a hierarchical production‐planning model
Meybodi, Mohammad Z. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 15 (1995) 5, pp. 4-25
Presents a hierarchical production planning (HPP) model that integrates aggregate‐type planning, family disaggregate planning, lot‐sizing, job scheduling and evaluation of the final production plans into a complete planning and scheduling system. In‐corporation of a simple heuristic...
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An Expert System Aproach to Discrete‐Change Simulation
Chaharbaghi, K.; Davies, B.L.; Rahnejat, H.; Dobbs, P.J. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 8 (1988) 2, pp. 14-34
There are a number of major prerequisites in the planning, design and operation of all manufacturing systems. These include resource planning, production flow analysis and reliability assessment. The application of these methods form an integral part of an overall feasibility study, the result...
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Product maturity and marketing strategy
Mason, R.S. - In: European Journal of Marketing 10 (1976) 1, pp. 36-48
Suggests that frequent review of product sales performance is essential to the planning and control process. Investigates those products which have reached maturity or saturation stage of their product life cycle and reviews these in order to decide on their future product strategy. Evaluates...
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Constraints to quick response systems in the implosive industries
Lehtonen, Juha‐Matti; Holmström, Jan; Slotte, Jonas - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 4 (1999) 1, pp. 51-57
Studies the problem of producing a product range with high customer service in the implosive industries. In the implosive industries a wide range of end products are manufactured from a limited number of standard materials. The problem of producing a product range with high customer service is...
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Broadband and Beer
Newton, Laura - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 90 (1990) 1, pp. 20-22
When it came to networking Ind Coope′s Burton‐on‐Trent Brewery, Allen‐Bradley′s Communications Division provided an integrated broadband cable solution which has enabled the brewery to produce its vast array of beer and lager products to specific batching demands and with a greater...
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Leading Indicators of German Business Cycles. An Assessment of Properties / Frühindikatoren der deutschen Konjunktur. Eine Beurteilung ihrer Eigenschaften
Fritsche, Ulrich; Stephan, Sabine - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 222 (2002) 3, pp. 289-315
Summary A reliable leading indicator should possess the following properties: (1) The movements in the indicator series should resemble those in the business cycle reference series. (2) The relation between the reference series and the indicator should be statistically significant and stable...
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Hat die Fehlallokation von Produktionsfaktoren zur Produktivitätsschwäche in Deutschland beigetragen?
Jannsen, Nils - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 68 (2019) 1, pp. 6-26
Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …
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Management Accounting in the Modern Production Environment: Is it Good Enough?
Morgan, Malcolm J. - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 89 (1989) 3, pp. 17-21
British industry is dominated by accountants of one kind or another. However, it is argued, the writing is on the wall. The gradual erosion of the efficacy of management accounting systems has largely been a result of the blurring of an initially, historically clear demarcation between control...
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