Integrating quantitative and qualitative forecasting approaches: organizational learning in an action research caseJournal of the Operational Research Society - Tập 62 - Trang 413-424 - 2010
F Caniato, M Kalchschmidt, S Ronchi
This article examines the integration of quantitative and judgmental forecasting, focusing on the implementation process and its impacts on the organization. To this end, the study is based on an action research case study in the cement industry. Empirical evidence highlights the critical change management issues that need to be dealt with to implement an integrated forecasting system. The impleme...... hiện toàn bộ
Highway improvement project selection by the joint consideration of cost-benefit and risk criteriaJournal of the Operational Research Society - - 2012
P Kelle, H Schneider, C Raschke, H Shirazi
Since highway improvement project selection requires screening thousands of road segments with respect to crashes for further analysis and final project selection, we provide a two-step project selection methodology and describe an application case to demonstrate its advantages. In the first step of the proposed methodology, we will use odds against observing a given crash count, injury count, run...... hiện toàn bộ
An incentive model for closed-loop supply chain under the EPR lawJournal of the Operational Research Society - Tập 65 - Trang 88-96 - 2013
X Li, Y Li, K Govindan
Motivated by the collection outsourcing phenomena under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), this paper studies a contract design problem for a manufacturer who consigns the used product collection to a collector, while the manufacturer only has incomplete information on the collector's cost. On the basis of the incentive theory, optimal contracts are developed to minimize the cost and satisfy ...... hiện toàn bộ
A Multiple-rule Heuristic for Assembly Line BalancingJournal of the Operational Research Society - Tập 46 - Trang 62-69 - 1995
Fayez F. Boctor
This paper introduces a four-rule heuristic method for production/assembly line balancing which seeks to minimize the number of workstations for a given cycle time. To evaluate its performance, the proposed method was compared with 15 other heuristic methods ranging in complexity from random assignment of work elements to Hoffmann's enumeration procedure. The results, based on both randomly genera...... hiện toàn bộ
EditorialJournal of the Operational Research Society - Tập 17 - Trang 331-334 - 1966
J. R. L.
Safety Stock and Service Levels in Periodic Review Inventory SystemsJournal of the Operational Research Society - Tập 42 - Trang 1087-1095 - 1991
W. C. Benton
The management of requirement (purchased parts and components) uncertainty in MRP systems is a serious problem for manufacturing firms. When manufacturing service levels fall below a predetermined service level, safety stock must be increased in order to adjust to the competitive environment. This paper presents the results of a set of simulation experiments in which we investigate some of the com...... hiện toàn bộ
A transformation for the mixed general routing problem with turn penaltiesJournal of the Operational Research Society - Tập 59 - Trang 540-547 - 2007
D Soler, E Martínez, J C Micó
In this paper, we study a generalization of the Mixed General Routing Problem (MGRP) with turn penalties and forbidden turns. Thus, we present a unified model of this kind of extended versions for both node- and arc-routing problems with a single vehicle. We provide a polynomial transformation of this generalization into an asymmetric travelling salesman problem, which can be considered a particul...... hiện toàn bộ