Every patient is unique. This is why hospitals are characterised by highly complex and variable processes. We distinguish between two main categories of processes: The primary healthcare process concerned with the cure and care for the patient, and supporting processes such as logistics, planning, and administration. The American Productivity and Quality Center Healthcare Process Classification...

Each individual planning process starts with clear objectives. These objectives specify the goals for the planning process, which is assigning tasks to resources at a certain point in time. Planning systems, whether manual or computerized, should utilize those objectives in their planning. In order to gain insight in the specific planning objectives for the Logistical Service Providers (LSPs) d...

Current specialized planners for query processing are designed to work in local, reliable, and predictable environments. However, there are a number of problems that arise in gathering information from large networks of distributed information. In this environment actions can be executed in parallel to exploit distributed resources, new goals come into the system in the midst of execution, acti...

Efficient evaluation system on the basis of previous studies, the use of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for the systematic analysis of the level and efficiency of influencing factors listed logistics company's efficiency and build the evaluation of the efficiency of logistics enterprises in China situation. First, the study concludes that the existing research results at home and ab...

Sub-daily personnel planning, which is the focus of our work offers considerable productivity reserves for companies in certain industries, such as logistics, retail and call centres. However, it also creates complex challenges for the planning software. We compare particle swarm optimisation (PSO), the evolution strategy (ES) and a constructive agent-based heuristic on a set of staff schedulin...

The present research is related to the implementation and development of new platforms for fresh food and its integration in ERP systems (Enterprise Resource Planning). This project was motivated by real industrial case and required specific customization, introducing challenging aspects due to the problem size (referring to an industrial case involving one of the most active retail company in ...

This paper reviews the practice in reverse logistics through published literature. The objective of this study is to encourage and provide researchers with future research directions in reverse logistics. Since supply chains are designed for forward flow, integrating product recovery into the network design poses a major challenge. An important assignment of top management is to analyse the obs...

In this work, we provide an overview of our previously published works on incorporating demand uncertainty in midterm planning of multisite supply chains. A stochastic programming based approach is described to model the planning process as it reacts to demand realizations unfolding over time. In the proposed bilevel-framework, the manufacturing decisions are modeled as ‘here-and-now’ decisions...

Organizations and communities are held together by knowledge flow networks whether people are aware of them or not. To plan such a network is to describe a formal and optimal flow of knowledge as the basis for effective teamwork. The difficulty is that the result of such planning depends greatly on the planners’ experience. This paper proposes a pattern-based approach to knowledge flow design f...