For reasonable application in critical domains dialogue systems not only have to pay attention to user knowledge and dialogue goals but they also have to adapt their dialogue behaviour to current limitations of the user's cognitive processing capabilities. In case of a help system the point of concern is on the one hand the aspect as to what kind of help is appropriate for the user (What to do?...

Sales forecasting is a common activity in most companies affecting operations, marketing and planning. Little is known about its practice. Mentzer and his colleagues have developed a research programme over twenty years aimed at rectifying the gap in knowledge. Most recently, in the Mentzer et al. (2002) paper they have demonstrated with supporting evidence the use of a sales forecasting audit ...

In traditional sales planning models, planning activities typically are based on a range of disjointed and nonstandard business processes. That fragmentation creates longer implementation cycle times, with resulting plans misaligned with real-time/unfolding market and regulatory dynamics. Targets are not precise, data is difficult to collect and distribute, and sales professionals are not as ef...

This paper investigates a capacity planning strategy that collects commitments to purchase before the capacity decision and uses the acquired advance sales information to decide on the capacity. In particular, we study a profit-maximization model in which a manufacturer collects advance sales information periodically prior to the regular sales season for a capacity decision. Customer demand is ...

The paper describes deployment experience of a decision support system for planning fuel supplies within a network of gas stations, which is based on simulation, multi -agent and expert modeling. Authors focus on various methods used in decision support system BPsim.DSS. Mainly the system is used by logistical management and planning departments. The system implement such features as forecastin...

Este trabalho tem como base temas relacionados a ferramentas de planejamento recursos os softwares Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) e Enterprise Resources (ERP) Lean. Nesse contexto, pergunta norteadora é: Como otimizar humanos materiais para entregar uma operação com menos riscos segurança, emissões, suscetibilidade às condições flutuação do mercado, lucratividade competitividade tanto...

Recently, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has received considerable attention and is considered to be the next wave of information technology revolution. The number of PFID applications in different industries is increasing continuously. Cumulative sales of RFID tag is up in 2006 which shows RFID adoption trend in industries to improve their efficiency of operations and to gain a competit...

The economic context leads companies to answer quickly to the unpredictable changing customer demands. Advanced Planning Systems (APS) are useful tools to set up quickly Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) and Master Production Schedules (MPS). The problem is to obtain stable plans and schedules in spite of the unstable demand. In this paper, we propose a special procedure based on mathematical...

Recently, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has received considerable attention and is considered to be the next wave of information technology revolution. The number of RFID applications in different industries is increasing continuously. Cumulative sales of RFID tag is up in 2006 which shows RFID adoption trend in industries to improve their efficiency of operations and to gain a competit...