Showing papers in "Journal of Operations Management in 1993"

TL;DR: In this article, the case study method is used to explore the real-world conditions that OM models seek to describe, and it is viewed with scepticism by those who consider it to be a weak form of research, one that lacks rigor and objectivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a model which uses resource dependence to explain how and why purchasing is moving towards Just-in-Time (JIT) and bridged the fields of operations management and organization theory.

TL;DR: By suggesting an integrated framework, this study clarifies and combines the terms and concepts related to manufacturing strategies based on the results of business strategy research and new manufacturing technology for further empirical study with this framework.

TL;DR: The study investigates the impact of MPS freezing parameters on the total cost, schedule instability and service levels in multilevel MRP systems under demand uncertainty conditions and concludes that freezing the entire planning horizon is the best option in this case.

TL;DR: Results of this research indicate a departure from previous results in the dual resource constrained job shop, and shows that selection of the rule that governs where the worker should move is the most important choice.

TL;DR: A decision support approach to selecting vendors under the conflicting criteria of minimizing the annual material costs, reducing the number of suppliers and maximizing suppliers' delivery and quality performances is proposed.

TL;DR: One of these methods is a traditional approach to the task, while the other, by using modified customer arrival rates, offers a better means of accounting for the multi-period impact of customer service.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine the administrative and technological perspectives of organizational innovation into four descriptive models of synchronous innovation, and examine production managers' perceptions of synchronicity.

TL;DR: The results of this investigation reveal that the mixed flowtime prediction models provide significant improvements in job shop due-date estimation performance, and Statistically significant performance improvements are obtained in both the average lateness and fraction tardy jobs for mixed estimates.

TL;DR: Evaluation of the resource transfer rules shows that additional resources should only be transferred into a project just-in-time of expected use, and idle resources which are expected to be utilized within a time period of not longer than two times the resourcetransfer time should be retained within their assigned project.

TL;DR: Reducing forecast bias is shown to be much preferred to reducing forecast variability, bias management is more important to on-time delivery than to inventory reduction, and the value of such reductions is particularly important in situations where there are large lot-sizes and small buffers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the theory of the core from game theory to find a region of "fair" cost allocations in which no one is worse off after consolidation, and compute the Shapley Value as the center of this region.

TL;DR: This paper presents a much simpler heuristic procedure which is as good as M-A3H2 in solution quality regarding the mean squared and absolute deviations and much more efficient in computation time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the implementation challenges of offshore manufacturing encountered by multinational firms within a specific setting, focusing on the cooperative operational program known as "production sharing" as developed in the US/Mexico border zone and in designated regions of the Mexican interior, and explore the long-term strategic advantages and challenges present in the maquiladora program.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, given a set of operational conditions, a better design of a just-in-time manufacturing system can be attained through the application of the proposed simulation model.

TL;DR: In this article, the Wagner-Whitin problem with a one-time oportunity to invest in setup reduction is modeled as a policy variable and defined as a function of the decision variable representing the annual amortized investment in setup cost reduction.

TL;DR: The implementable approach integrates the non-parametric allocative data envelopment analysis methodology with parametric regression analysis to yield a mathematical programming optimization model that identifies the chain's best practices in different environments, thereby enabling management to factor out poor performances due to flawed installation, lack of proper worker incentives, etc.

TL;DR: In this paper, a research team from London Business School designed and installed information systems in a number of UK batch manufacturing companies, and the focus emerged on the appropriate data structure for order progressing, or order-book model, as the central need of such companies.

TL;DR: The interaction of lot-sizing and dispatching techniques was found to be a function of capacity utilization, a factor influenced by demand and nervousness level, and the combination of least total cost and earliest job due produced the best overall performance at low demand.