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Showing papers in "Journal of Operations Management in 1990"


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the need for more research in operations management which is based on data from the real world, and provide a starting point that encourages operations management researchers to use empirical data and provides a systematic approach for conducting empirical studies.

1,545 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the nature of the trade-offs among manufacturing capabilities is more complex than has been assumed, and they suggest a model which shows how this can be done: to build cumulative and lasting manufacturing capability, management attention and resources should go first toward enhancing quality, then, while the efforts to enhance quality are further expanded, attention should be paid to improve also the dependability of the production system, and finally, while efforts on the previous two are further enhanced, production flexibility (or reaction speed).

1,238 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an exploratory empirical study of the process of formulating and implementing manufacturing strategy within the framework of overall corporate strategy, as practiced by a cross-sectional representation of leading-edge firms.

154 citations


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TL;DR: In a sequential, multi-stage process, management should design and staff the system so that the shortest wait for the customer occurs prior to the first stage, according to the results of a model developed which integrates the marketing perspective of customer satisfaction and the operations management perspective ofCustomer waiting time.

111 citations


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TL;DR: The results of this application indicated that the advantage of using operationally relevant data for grouping and for defining generic, group-based policies for controlling inventory can be substantial and can be of value to operations managers in industries with a large number of diverse items.

109 citations


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TL;DR: This paper reevaluates CCM in view of the recent concerns raised about it and offers some extensions which improve the model's performance and proposes a broadened definition of “customer contact” that differentiates between “active” and “passive” contact.

96 citations


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TL;DR: Five sequencing methods are reviewed and it is shown that these methods differ widely in their ability to generate good sequences, and a mixed integer programming (MIP) model is presented as a way to find an optimal sequence.

89 citations


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TL;DR: It is argued that push and pull are characteristics of the underlying decision-making process; and hence manufacturing control systems, which embody a collection of decisions, will contain elements of push or pull to varying degrees.

87 citations


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TL;DR: The coping mechanisms used by manufacturing firms to alleviate the double bind of short lead times and high levels of customization are investigated and a contingency model developed in this paper is explained.

66 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the complex issue of the trade-off between full-time and part-time staff and develop a relative measure of flexibility for using parttime individuals.

44 citations


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TL;DR: Modification of the cost parameters there, followed by stage-by-stage application throughout the whole network of the best single-stage lot-sizing method, gives lower total costs than when no cost revision is applied in the mixed system.

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TL;DR: This paper compares two linear programming models for shift scheduling in services where homogeneously-skilled employees are available at limited times and finds the LP model with complete break placement flexibility and implicitly matching employees to shifts generated schedules costing 6.7% less than those developed by the from-scratch heuristic.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the rejuvenation of the field of operations management since the late 1950s through a mail survey, using two primary measures in their study: the trends in dissertation topics and the productivity of doctoral advisors and their students.


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TL;DR: Insight is added into how these systems should be scheduled and the understanding of the influences of routing flexibility is increased and the scheme that takes the greatest advantage of increased flexibility is an off-line scheme that decomposes the scheduling problem.

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TL;DR: Results show that controlled release deteriorates flow time, lateness, and tardiness performance and is inferior to both immediate and interval release, and indicates that in a manufacturing cell, the use of shop floor information is effective for due date assignment, but is not worthwhile for order releasing.

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TL;DR: A rigorous description of the demand management process in the assemble-to-order environment, as a mathematical model is presented, which focuses on short-term decision making involved in controlling demand management—accepting orders and dispatching capacity to fill the orders.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the setup reduction problem with multiple items and show that the potential savings and preferred sequence of reductions is dependent on the interactions of several item parameters (i.e., current setup cost, unit costs, total demand, demand variability, and target lot size).

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TL;DR: The use of an accepted measure of return on assets, net present value (NPV), in a simulated shop scheduling environment where early shipment of jobs before their due dates is forbidden is examined, finding that environmental factors resulted in greater variations in NPV performance than the institution of a JIT raw materials delivery policy.

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TL;DR: The authors developed a GT-based classification and coding system for assemblies, with specific application to a firm in the pulp and paper making machinery industry, which was used for direct retrieval of engineering designs and manufacturing plans, thus inducing efficiency within the design and planning functions.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a simple single product inventory model to present a conceptual framework to show how various inventory parameters and decisions affect the firm's business risk, and hence the firms's opportunity cost of capital.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a procedure for dealing with multiple objectives in cell formation decisions is proposed, where a best of random seeds heuristic is used to generate a large number of alternatives.

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TL;DR: The insights gained from this study suggest that accuracy in economic projections requires a solid understanding of the application areas to which GT software will be applied, the nature of the potential benefits, and the conditions under which these benefits will occur.




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TL;DR: In this paper, a multivariate approach for measuring problem complexity is proposed, which is based on structural pattern recognition, and is illustrated with example problems from the literature and illustrated the utility of the megastructure as a guide for laying out a facility.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of forecast errors on the cost effects of aggregate production planning by analyzing the results of 740 simulated problems using the famous "paint factory” cost data.