Showing papers in "International Journal of Production Economics in 2001"
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TL;DR: Workflow Management as mentioned in this paper is an overview of workflow terminology and organization, as well as detailed coverage of workflow modeling with Petri nets, which facilitates communication between designers and users, and includes case studies, review exercises, and a glossary.
1,336 citations
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TL;DR: The literature on mass customization is surveyed and approaches to implementing mass customization are compiled and classified and future research directions are outlined.
1,296 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed integer non-linear programming model is presented to solve the multiple sourcing problem, which takes into account the total cost of logistics, including net price, storage, transportation and ordering costs.
641 citations
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TL;DR: In order to achieve world-class performance, more and more companies are replacing their reactive, fire-fighting strategies for maintenance with proactive strategies like preventive and predictive maintenance and aggressive strategies like total productive maintenance as discussed by the authors.
605 citations
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TL;DR: Four control characteristics of maintenance spare parts – criticality, specificity, demand pattern, and value of parts – are discussed in terms of their effects on logistics system elements – network structure, positioning of materials, responsibility of control, and control principles.
360 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the tradeoff between the short-term opportunity cost of capacity and the long-term value of learning as a dynamic program and show what happens if managers misunderstand the sources of learning.
320 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, Croston's method has been reported to be a robust method but has shown more modest benefits in forecasting accuracy than expected, and one of the causes of this unexpected performance has been identified.
314 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a fuzzy decision algorithm is proposed to select the most suitable advanced manufacturing system (AMS) alternative from a set of mutually exclusive alternatives, where both economic evaluation criterion and strategic criteria such as flexibility, quality improvement, which are not quantitative in nature, are considered for selection.
278 citations
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TL;DR: A distributed and non-hierarchic control structure for a Consortium VE, allowing tasks distribution and product development management, is proposed with a multi-agent system based solution with self-organisation abilities.
266 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an efficient long-term capacity management is vital to any manufacturing firm and it has implications on competitive performance in terms of cost, delivery speed, dependability and flexibility.
249 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a frame that is based on the general decoupling point concept by Hoekstra and Romme, adapted to the specific characteristics of the food processing industry.
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TL;DR: A decision aid that will allow weighting (prioritizing) of a service industry's unique service qualitymeasures, consider the real world resource limitations, and select the optimal set of qualitycontrol instruments for customer data collection purposes is proposed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the classical economic order quantity (EOQ) and the economic production quantity (EPQ) formulas for the shortage case, have been derived using differential calculus and solving two simultaneous equations with the need to prove optimality conditions with second-order derivatives.
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TL;DR: SCSIM can be used for various SCs analyses to gain a better understanding of SC behaviour and performance in the presence of uncertainty and to enhance decision making on operational SC control parameters.
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TL;DR: 114 US and Japanese U-lines are examined in this study and the reported benefits are impressive.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new framework is introduced for measuring construction logistics, a two-dimensional model where measures are grouped by the use of measures and by the focus of measures.
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TL;DR: How tools and techniques developed can be used to evaluate the performance of alternative strategic choices through a quantitative approach to modelling of performance measurement systems is demonstrated.
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TL;DR: In this article, a deteriorating inventory model taking into account the time-value of money is developed for a deterministic inventory system with price-dependent demand, and a heuristic approach is presented to derive the near optimal replenishment and pricing policy that tries to maximize the total net present value profit.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated inventory system where a single vendor purchases and processes raw materials in order to deliver finished items to multiple buyers is considered, and an analytical model is developed to derive the optimal investment amount and replenishment decisions for both vendor and buyers.
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TL;DR: This paper addresses the problem of scheduling a set of independent jobs on unrelated parallel machines with job sequence dependent setup times so as to minimize a weighted mean completion time, and proposes seven heuristic algorithms for solving this problem.
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TL;DR: Special attention must be paid to product policy and cross-functional project approach to make this tool a valuable technological and organisational aid for innovation projects.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the theoretical foundations for the study of interorganizational relationships within a supply chain management context, and analyzes the contingencies of deploying inter-organizational information systems (IOIS).
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine the problem of safety stock planning in a general supply chain with the integration of external and internal product return and reuse in order to improve product reuse.
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TL;DR: Computational results indicate that a genetic algorithm with optimized parameters for controlling the evolution of solutions consistently performs significantly better than the heuristic for blocking #owshops developed in a recent Ph.D. thesis by Abadi.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an inventory model for a single reusable product is investigated, in which the random returns depend explicitly on the demand stream, and the model distinguishes itself from most other research in this field by considering leadtimes and a finite planning horizon.
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TL;DR: This paper proposes an extended linear programming model for a similar hybrid approach and shows that the proposed approach finds the better solution in a less number of iterations compared to the approach by Byrne and Bakir.
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TL;DR: Flexibility types not valued with real options and real options without any corresponding manufacturing flexibility type are identified and discussed.
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TL;DR: It is shown that by determining the inventory position in a proper way the performance of the policy can be improved considerably, equivalent to using the remanufacturing leadtime as a decision variable which has to be fixed in an optimal way.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the reverse Wagner/Whitin model is extended to the case with additional variable manufacturing and remanufacturing cost, which can be regarded as a combination of the classical Wagner and Whitin model with given returns of used products.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a minimal set of relevant properties that a productivity index needs to satisfy to correctly assess performance development of a decision-making unit and point out inconsistencies with properties related to commensurability, monotonicity, and implications of maximizing behavior.