The construction industry is inherently multidisciplinary and has adopted manyintellectual and technical business improvements from other industries in an effort to optimizeproductivity. In construction, management inactivity is the root cause of 30% of non-productive time. This has created an...

Within the last 30 years, Manufacturing ResourcePlanning (MRP-type) computer systems have quicklyevolved from basic materials requirement planningsoftware to today's enterprise resource planning (ERP)integrated software packages that reside on client/servercomputer architecture. However, given...

We provide a comprehensive characterization of the relationship between optimal capacity and the degree of product substitution/complementarity under price/production postponement, considering different business practices (holdback versus clearance, negative price policies) and different demand...