Airline delay costs are incurred both on the day of operations (tactical cost) and at the planning stage (strategic cost). The latter may take the form of buffer in schedules. Strategic and tactical costs are not independent. Passenger costs of delay to the airline, crew, fuel, maintenance and fleet costs are quantified. Cost trade-offs are presented as a 3D plot assessing the ‘break-even’ poin...

Tactical Management is an area where businesses can pursue competitive advantage. Lately, it has been under-addressed and even ingested by operational and strategic trends in Management and Information Systems. It needs adaptability as managerial way of thinking and acting along with proper information requirements recognition, in order for the person performing the tactical management function...

Purpose – The study sets out to explore the use of an iterative approach for designing distribution chain in an agile virtual environment; in an agile virtual environment, quick adaptation to changing market situation and automation of supply chain management processes are essential. Design/methodology/approach – The iterative approach consists of two parts: the strategic model and the tactical...

Capacity coordination, as the tactical level of hierarchical production planning in hybrid MTS/MTO systems, includes numerous important decisions. In this paper, two of these decisions i.e. finding the best strategy for the acceptance/rejection of incoming orders and determining orders’ due dates – are investigated. Also a simulation model is proposed to evaluate the efficiency of the presented...

Over the past decade the term Fusion has become synonymous with tactical or battle space awareness after hostilities have begun. As such, work has concentrated on object identification, tracking algorithms and the use of multiple sources for reducing uncertainty and maximizing coverage. As more situations unfold throughout the world, smart strategic decisions must be made before deployment of o...

Industries constitute a highly complex process network including multiple business and process units, which interact with each other. Enterprisewide optimization addresses the optimization of supply operations, manufacturing and distribution in process industries. This work presents the evolution of knowledge management approaches for supporting enterprise wide optimization in process system en...

The ambulance-planning problem includes operational decisions such as choice of dispatching policy, strategic decisions such as where ambulances should be stationed and at what times they should operate, and tactical decisions such as station location selection. Any solution to this problem requires careful balancing of political, economic and medical objectives. Quantitative decision processes...

Consumers’ pricesensitivity is an important input to strategic and tactical decisions. Price sensitivities depend on various factors for which our purpose of this paper is to explore consumers’ price sensitivity and innovativenessas well asto contribute to diffusion theory by adding information on price sensitivity.This research reviews how consumers demonstrate their sensitivities to price on ...

The present work aims to support tactical and operational planning decisions of reverse logistics systems while considering economic, environmental and social objectives. In the literature, when addressing such systems economic aspects have been often used, while environmental concerns have emerged only recently. The social component is the one less studied and rarely the combination of the thr...