Sales force deployment involves the concurrent resolution of four interrelated subproblems: sizing the sales force, salesman location, sales territory alignment, and sales resource allocation. The first subproblem addresses the topic of selecting the appropriate number of salesman. The salesman...

Three types of multi-item capacitated dynamic lotsizing and scheduling models are well established until now: The capacitated lotsizing problem, the discrete lotsizing and scheduling problem as well as the continuous setup lotsizing problem. An analysis of the underlying fundamental assumptions...

Lotsizing and scheduling comprises activities which have to be done repeatedly within MRP-systems. First, we show via a simple example the deficiencies arising within the MRP-context by neglecting the interrelationships of multi-stage systems. Second, we propose a new model for multi-item,...