Sumer C. Aggarwal

TL;DR: This paper looks at the inventory-related models published during the last ten years from the systems point of view, and a synthesized review of recently published models belonging to each individual category is presented.

TL;DR: A detailed analysis of Material Requirements Planning, Kanban, optimised Production Technology (OPT) and Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), including the applied assumptions behind these and their limitations and weaknesses, shows that each system is sound in its own way and can accomplish low cost, high quality, on‐time production.

TL;DR: The paper outlines the special characteristics of services, as compared to those of the manufacturing systems, and lists eleven different types of service systems, showing for each the unique constraints, the special sets of conflicting objectives as designated by their respective managements, and the commonly used techniques, methods and procedures.

TL;DR: A cost‐based composite scheduling rule is developed and evaluated in comparison with three other well‐researched scheduling rules—SPT, S/OPN, and SST, which permits the optimization of more than one performance measure at a time.

TL;DR: A generalized model of an outpatient clinic which duplicates many real-life complexities, e.g. different facilities, the patient routes through the clinic, number of observers in each facility, etc, is discussed.