Deferring capacity expansion may be a cost effective decision when there is anticipation of cheaper capacity in the near future and/or the current demand is too low to justify an immediate expansion. This paper studies a finite-horizon capacity expansion problem (CEP) with deferred capacity...

We develop a method to estimate the capacity of agents who answer e-mail in a contact center, given aggregate historical data that have been distorted both by constraints on work availability and by internal incentives to slow down when true capacity exceeds demand. We use the capacity estimate...

Land transportation managers face some difficulties especially for operating decisions which are about load/capacity/route planning. Load consolidation is a widely used practice in transportation. Load consolidation is grouping of several small shipments into one container while satisfying...

This paper deals with forecasting demand of potential factors in data centers. Firstly it will define factors themselves and their importance in the process of data centers. Then it will be shown how three standard forecasting methods can be applied for predicting capacity needs in data centers.

The article deals with design of the logistic principles enabling an enterprise to create a strategy flexible in terms of business and marketing and stable and steady in terms of manufacturing. In order to create a strategy model the following principles can be applied: shortening the period of...

A fully integrated planning tool capable of undertaking an initial grid connection assessment for prospective renewable energy generators (REG) has been developed to support the Scottish Executive achieve their targets for renewable energy utilisation, and to assist the Scottish electric utility...

This paper describes a refined methodology for determining long-term care (LTC) capacity levels over a multi-year planning horizon based on a previous study. The problem is to find a capacity level in each year during the planning horizon to meet a wait time service level criterion. Instead of a...

In this paper, we address the optimal configuration of a capacitated production/inventory system with multiple products. The optimisation problem that we consider involves minimisation of the expected total inventory cost within the system subject to a service-level constraint. The functional...

Buyers for a large international catalogue retailer visit European and Asian wholesale suppliers to order goods for the coming retail season. A single large warehouse stores all the goods purchased. The focus of this paper is on the interaction between the buyers' ordering system and warehouse...