This note empirically validates forecasting management competence (FMC) as a higher-order construct based on four underlying sets of practices: internal integration, forecasting process quality, effective use of advanced systems, and evaluation of forecasting. The results from a partial least...

This paper addresses the problem of assigning operators to teams that work in single-, two-, or three-day shift systems. The problem was motivated by, and illustrated with a case situation encountered in Dutch manufacturing industry. The problem addressed forms an extension of cell formation...