When should advanced planning and scheduling systems be used in sales and operations planning?

When Planning Should Be Easy: On Solving Cumulative Planning Problems

This paper deals with planning domains that appear in computer games, especially when modeling intelligent virtual agents. Some of these domains contain only actions with no negative effects and are thus treated as easy from the planning perspective. We propose two new techniques to solve the problems in these planning domains, a heuristic search algorithm ANA* and a constraint based planner Re...

Constructive Engagement in Sales and Operations planning

Coordinated Planning and Scheduling of Electricity and Natural Gas Systems

In this paper we propose a model for coordinated planning of power and natural gas systems, as a part of electricity supply chain. This model takes into account costs and constraints of both systems, and with hiring simplifications and linearization methods transforms initially nonlinear formulation to a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem. Natural gas would be assumed steady state,...

Chemotherapy operations planning and scheduling

Chemotherapy operations planning and scheduling Ayten Turkcan a , Bo Zeng b & Mark Lawley c a Northeastern University, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 02115, Boston, MA, USA b University of South Florida, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Tampa, FL, USA c Purdue University, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, USA Accepted author version posted online...

production planning and operations scheduling: a new approach

this paper introduces the general framework of a new system for material flow planning and operations and some of its important aspects. the justification for the new system stems from the short coming of mrp  i/mrp ii in term of its assumptions, particularly in relation to fixed lead times and effectively infinite production capacity. at the heart of the system is an automatic scheduler based ...