Enterprise resource planning systems (ERP systems) are enterprise information systems designed to support business processes. They partially or completely include functions such as order processing, purchasing, production scheduling, dispatching, financial accounting and controlling (Monk et. al., 2005). ERP systems are the backbone of information management in many industrial and commercial en...

Production scheduling activities are common but complex. This leads to many different views and perspectives of production scheduling. Each perspective has a particular scope, its own set of assumptions, and a different approach to improving production scheduling. This paper covers three important perspectives (the problem-solving perspective, the decision-making perspective, and the organizati...

Scheduling is an important tool for manufacturing and engineering, where it can have a major impact on the productivity of a process (Min et al., 2009). In manufacturing, the purpose of production scheduling is to minimize the production time and costs, by informing a production facility when to make, with which staff, and on which equipment (Zhu et al., 2011). Nowadays, it is possible to obser...

The production of bakery goods is strictly time sensitive due to the complex biochemical processes during dough fermentation, which leads to special requirements for production planning and scheduling. Instead of mathematical methods scheduling is often completely based on the practical experience of the responsible employees in bakeries. This sometimes inconsiderate scheduling approach often l...

In general, distributed scheduling problem focuses on simultaneously solving two issues: (i) allocation of jobs to suitable factories and (ii) determination of the corresponding production scheduling in each factory. The objective of this approach is to maximize the system efficiency by finding an optimal planning for a better collaboration among various processes. This makes distributed schedu...

Traditional scheduling methods such as CPM or PERT have been found to be inappropriate for scheduling the linear construction projects. According to the limitations of Traditional scheduling methods, Linear Scheduling Method (LSM) is proposed specifically for linear construction projects. Aiming at overcoming the limitations of network technology in deciding the production rate of linear constr...

A major challenge for research in production management is to develop new finite-capacity scheduling techniques and tools that (1) can account more precisely for actual production management constraints and objectives, (2) are better suited for handling production contingencies, and (3) allow the user to interactively manipulate the production schedule to reflect idiosyncratic constraints and p...

Hospital case mix and capacity planning involves the decision making both on patient volumes that can be taken care of at a hospital and on resource requirements and capacity management. In this research, to advance both the hospital resource efficiency and the health care service level, a multilevel integrative approach to the planning problem is proposed on the basis of mathematical programmi...

Hospital case mix and capacity planning involves the decision making both on patient volumes that can be taken care of at a hospital and on resource requirements and capacity management. In this research, to advance both the hospital resource efficiency and the health care service level, a multilevel integrative approach to the planning problem is proposed on the basis of mathematical programmi...