Organizations can be viewed as an ongoing sequence of loosely coupled decisions where current and future assets are matched with current and future demand across the demand-supply network at different levels of granularity ranging from a placing a lot on a tool to an aggregate capacity plan across a five year horizon. Since the early 1990s detailed enterprise wide central planning has become a ...

Problem statement: GIS has several techniques and functions that can be used for health services planning. Each one of these functions can be applied for different health related issues. Approach: The first part of this study reviews the relevant GIS functions that are used by health care planning researches and identifies the advantages of using these functions. The second part of the study fo...

Over the last decade the approach to dealing with an increasing water demand in the Cape Metropolitan Area (CMA) has progressively shifted from a supply oriented philosophy to one where strategies for reducing the demand are integrated with supply management. While there is still much to be done to implement a totally integrated approach, a firm foundation has been laid. Water demand management...

Major changes in the cellular terminal business market environment have resulted in a situation where supply chains need to realign their approach to demand and supply planning, supply dynamics and to technology cooperation practices to stay competitive. The purpose of this research was address the problematic of a dynamic and volatile business environment in regards to supply chains by creatin...

Based on the traditional trip attraction model, a new method of operation condition evaluation and supply scale forecasting for public parking facilities is proposed. It begins with the operation condition investigation of existing parking facilities, and then analyzes qualitatively the existing parking facilities supply scale by four indexes. Finally, it can calculate the supply scale in predi...

Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to offer a solution to differentiate supply chain planning for products with different demand features and in different life-cycle phases. Design/methodology/approach – A normative framework for selecting a planning approach was developed based on a literature review of supply chain differentiation and supply chain planning. Explorative mini-cases...