The prosperity of a firm depends highly on the functional integration of its various departments, and in particular the cooperation between the production and the marketing departments appears to have a large impact on the ...

Due date setting is a difficult task for make-to-order companies and requires efficient capacity and lead time management. In the job-shop literature, production planning for make-to-order companies is tackled by using ...

Background: Kidney exchange has become a very common and important treatment alternative for patients suffering from serious kidney diseases with incompatible donors. Factors such as blood type, HLA matches and PRA existence ...

In this study, a two‐stage algorithm is developed for the cutting sequencing problem in a modular manufacturing system consisting of four basic workstations. Since the flexibility of the system is dependent upon the cutting ...

Sustainable procurement is the process of meeting the needs of an organisation with the most beneficial monetary value, while mitigating the diverse effects of its operations on society and environment. There are studies ...

This paper presents a two-stage approach for pattern generation and cutting plan determination of the one-dimensional cutting stock problem. Calculation of the total number of patterns that will be cut and generation of ...