Showing papers in "International Journal of Production Economics in 1994"

TL;DR: The model has been used to obtain absolute measurements of criticality which can be compared with prespecified numerical limits for classifying spare parts as Vital, Essential, or Desirable.

TL;DR: In this paper, a field study analyzing the cost management practices of three Japanese firms in the same supplier chain identified the development of inter-organizational cost management systems, which are designed to create downward cost pressures on the entire supplier chain.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of the literature on the cutting stock problem, also known as the trim-loss problem, mainly for the two-dimensional case, is presented, with special attention paid to the methodologies and the practical aspects.

TL;DR: Some cross-functional implications of the flexibility of manufacturing processes are explored, showing that - due to non-convexities - the decentralized solution of the above two problems typically yields a globally suboptimal solution.

TL;DR: In this article, a framework to explain the variety of trading relationships that exist between firms is presented, focusing on the need for buyers and suppliers to insure that specific transactions occur, called safeguards.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the economic ordering policies of deteriorating items in the presence of trade credit using a discounted cash-flows (DCF) approach, which permits a proper recognition of the financial implication of the opportunity cost and out-of-pocket costs in inventory analysis.

TL;DR: A common replenishment cycle based, coordinated inventory control model is suggested and it is shown that this approach is superior to independent optimization.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the interdependencies of marketing and manufacturing and the resulting coordination requirements in engineer-to-order (ETO) companies, based on the coordination characteristics and requirements a coordination structure can be developed.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of inflation and time value of money on the optimal ordering quantities and the maximum allowable shortage in a finite replenishment inventory system was investigated, and it was shown that this effect on the system becomes more significant with the increase of the difference between inflation rate and time discount rate.

TL;DR: The role of knowledge workers and support services play a dominant role in improving productivity and quality in manufacturing organizations, especially in advanced manufacturing systems such as JIT, FMS and CIM as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: It is shown by simulation results that some algorithms do not work well for the fuzzy flow shop scheduling problem, so a new approach is proposed by changing the objective function and the effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated by computer simulations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine some of the developments in inventory management, including the use of different methods of information collection and processing, e.g. bar coding in retailing and manufacture and electronic exchange of information.

TL;DR: This approach helps managers explore and evaluate costs and benefits of various scenarios for each configuration separately by experimenting with different types of machines and degrees of flexibility of the system.

TL;DR: This paper concerns a conceptual research on the comparison of two extreme approaches for order acceptance, and the interaction of order acceptance and production scheduling at an operational level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present two algorithms for solving a network-based formulation of the capacitated multi-item lot-sizing problem with backordering, which exploit the underlying network structure of the problem.

TL;DR: This paper considers a simple production planning problem with ambiguous data and decision-maker's vague aspirations, and applies a possibilistic programming approach based on possibility and necessity measures to solve the problem.

TL;DR: The optimal lot sizing is discussed which achieves a proper trade-off between the two costs for repairable items sold with free replacement warranty (FRW) policy.

TL;DR: An algorithm developed for the implementation of a new computorized inventory management system for spare parts in a large chemical plant, located in Belgium, that forecasts the demand occurrences by means of a Poisson distribution, giving satisfying results.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of inflation and time value of money on the replenishment policies of items with time continuous non-stationary demand over a finite planning horizon were studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed formal models and optimal solution approaches for various worker training scenarios to assist managers in deciding optimum tactical plans for training/retraining a workforce according to the skills required by a forecasted production schedule for a definite planning horizon in a manufacturing plant.

TL;DR: An interface congruence model based on five integration facilitating factors was proposed and tested through an empirical survey and consistent understanding of corporate strategic objectives, extensive use of coordination mechanisms and manufacturing flexibility showed significant direct relationships with interface Congruence.

TL;DR: A neural network approach to minimize the makespan of the job-shop scheduling, which is a combinatorial optimization problem, based on the Hopfield interconnected neural networks model that changes the threshold values at each transition of neurons in order to make a non-delay schedule.

TL;DR: An analytical model based on a common cycle time approach for inventory control under stochastic conditions for a vendor and multiple buyers dealing with a single product is developed and it is shown that implementation of this model can be economically desirable to all parties involved.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study focusing on field service leaders in the electronics industry is presented, with the focus on the importance of field service to competitiveness in the manufacturing industry, including General Electric Computer Services, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and NCR.

TL;DR: A growing range of powerful advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) was emerging to meet the challenges of the new strategic environment, and beyond this lay the possibilities of enhanced competitiveness through the computer-integrated factory and the electronically networked supply chain this article.

TL;DR: A generalized input-matrix has been designed to incorporate requirements as well as production lead times by means of z-transform methodology in a discrete time model, which is extended to continuous time using the Laplace transform.

TL;DR: Modifications to the traditional manufacturing planning and control model to reflect the principles of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), along with the selection of proper competitive factors provide a means of synchronizing the production process to an ever-more demanding market.

TL;DR: In this article, a model for inventory control where variation in lead times is allowed is presented, and the mean value and the variance for the time between withdrawals, the order and the reorder point is computed.

TL;DR: A product specification concept is proposed that allows a product specification from both a sales and a manufacturing view, thereby enhancing quality of information and reducing lead-times in the operational process.