Part I of this three-part series described semiconductor supply chains from the decision-
making and functional perspectives, using this as a framework to review the industrial …

Production planning and control (PPC) systems are important to the competitiveness of
manufacturing firms and their ability to benefit from recent technological advances. We give …

Traditional production planning models assume that all orders must be satisfied when
capacity is available. In this paper, we analyze the value of providing decision makers with …

Process industries typically involve complex manufacturing operations and thus require
adequate decision support for aggregate production planning (APP). In this paper, we focus …

We investigate a stochastic capacitated lot-sizing problem whose optimal solution requires
the integration of dynamic safety stock planning into lot-sizing. Then, we introduce an …

Manufacturing outsourcing is a key industry trend towards greater operations effectiveness
and is related to the discussion of strategic core competencies. We study the issue of …

Clearing functions (CFs) have shown considerable promise for representing production
capacity in production planning models due to their ability to capture the non-linear …

Nonlinear clearing functions have been proposed in the literature as metamodels to
represent the behaviour of production resources that can be embedded in optimisation …

Clearing functions that describe the expected output of a production resource as a function
of its expected workload have yielded promising production planning models. However …

This study introduces an innovative approach to address the Capacitated Lot-Sizing and
Scheduling Problem with Sequence-Dependent Setups (CLSD), considering both the …