Purpose‐The purpose of this paper is to study the often overlapping use of the related terms
flexibility, agility and responsiveness in the operations management literature to clarify …

Purpose–While the concept of supply chain responsiveness (SCR) has received
considerable attention in the operations management literature, mostly under the auspices …

Additive manufacturing (AM) is considered an emerging Industry 4.0 technology with the
potential to significantly change operations and supply chain management. In this context …

Process planning and scheduling functions strongly influence profitability of manufacturing a
product, resource utilisation and product delivery time. Several researchers have addressed …

Traditionally, process planning and scheduling for parts were carried out in a sequential
way, where scheduling was done after process plans had been generated. Considering the …

Purpose–The main aim of this paper is to study the effects of organizational culture on
environmental responsiveness capability (ERC), both directly and through the mediation of …

This study proposes new moderators acting on well‐established antecedents of absorptive
capacity. We treat separately the two dimensions of potential absorptive capacity and …

Process planning and scheduling are the two most important tasks in manufacturing.
Traditionally, these tasks are performed separately and sequentially through process …

Purpose The recent global market trend is seemed enforcing existing manufacturing
organizations (as well as service sectors) to improve existing supply chain systems or to take …

This paper presents the development of an agent-based negotiation approach to integrate
process planning and scheduling (IPPS) in a job shop kind of flexible manufacturing …