Resource Prices and Planning Horizons

Forecast horizons and dynamic facility location planning

We consider a dynamic facility location model in which the objective is to find a planning horizon, x*, and a first period decision, XI*, such that XI* is a first period decision for at least one optimal policy for all problems with planning horizons equal to or longer than x*. In other words, we seek a planning horizon, "r*, such that conditions after x* do not influence the choice of the opti...

Planning, Prices and Increasing Returns

Mobile Enterprise Resource Planning: New Technology Horizons Communications of the IBIMA

Mobile ERP is not per se something new or even special. It is an issue growing to become more and more important and enabling mobility due to the technological revolution and more so due to the mobile users. Mobility is about how businesses can provide a better infrastructure through mobile applications and services. While ERP was an important step taken by many firms, provision of services thr...

Enterprise Resource Planning and Business Intelligence: The Importance of Integration

The advancement of information and communications technologies (ICT) has significantly intensified market competition the world over. One of the most widespread solutions is the use of enterprise resource planning systems that has proved to support the integration and automation of the processes, the improvement of the performance, and the reduction of costs. ERP involves the planning and manag...

Planning horizons for the deterministic capacity problem

.\bstract-\Ve consider the problem of determinmg the optim,A timing and king ui ns\+ i’aciilt! conctruction under a continuous technology model of possible sizes. The rate of conLergen<r of ihurt tu lung run optimal policies is established 2nd plannin g horizon implication\ are explored. KC aI\u pr<,cn: Jn rtficient algorithm for solving such problems fur all horizon times by solbing a jingle h...