Disaggregation: Problems in manufacturing and service organizations

Front Matter....Pages iii-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Perspectives on disaggregation....Pages 3-10
Disaggregation in manufacturing and service organizations: survey of problems and research....Pages 11-31
Toward a theory of hierarchical coordination and conflict....Pages 35-46
An MSA view of disaggregation....Pages 47-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Hierarchical planning systems — a production application....Pages 63-93
Optimal aggregation and disaggregation in hierarchical planning....Pages 95-106
A hierarchical approach for the planning of a complex production system....Pages 107-125
A hierarchical approach to multilocation inventory systems....Pages 127-138
A disaggregation problem and a search enumeration algorithm for a multiplant, multiproduct scheduling application....Pages 139-153
An efficient algorithm for multi-item scheduling....Pages 157-182
Large scale optimization for master production scheduling....Pages 183-194
Multi-item scheduling with reflection programming....Pages 195-206
An approach to the analysis of integrated production-distribution systems....Pages 207-215
Empirical relationships among budgets, other financially-oriented aggregate plans and the master production schedule (MPS)....Pages 219-236
Hedging the master schedule....Pages 237-256
The disaggregation problem in the paper industry....Pages 257-270
An economic lot size algorithm for multi-level inventory systems with acyclic network structures....Pages 273-287
Impact of a product structure measure on the effectiveness of lot sizing techniques....Pages 289-298
The effects of joint lot size strategies on capacity related performance in a multi-stage production-inventory system....Pages 299-312
The impact of capacity on lot sizing decisions....Pages 313-327
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Variations in optimizing serial multi-stage production/inventory systems....Pages 329-352
Priority updating procedures in dynamic job shop simulation studies: the impact on measures of performance under different due date assignment rules....Pages 353-361
A review of flowshop scheduling research....Pages 363-388
An aggregate-disaggregate approach to the large scale multiple project scheduling problem....Pages 389-401
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Shift scheduling for telephone operators and service office employees....Pages 405-422
A complete control system for workforce management at a post office....Pages 423-430
Decision making in the public sector: an application of goal interval programming for disaggregation in the post office....Pages 431-446
Disaggregation of manpower in a service organization....Pages 447-457
Facilities planning in the railroad industry: the need for disaggregation....Pages 459-469
Vehicle dispatching — Sweep algorithm and extensions....Pages 471-483
Navy enlisted manpower planning....Pages 487-499
A public policy optimization model with simulation of disaggregation aspects: formulation of energy R and D policy....Pages 501-513
Costs and benefits of a computer based regional blood inventory system....Pages 515-526
Multi-level police patrol planning....Pages 529-539
Disaggregation of the decisions to allocate patrol resources to police precincts....Pages 541-551
Economically optimal quantity and mix of fire department services....Pages 553-562
Disaggregation planning, scheduling, and allocation of nursing staff....Pages 563-575
Disaggregate mathematical models for optimal hospital bed management....Pages 577-592
Recursive modeling of outpatient health care settings....Pages 593-610
Nurse scheduling: a case of disaggregation in the public sector....Pages 611-621
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Computerized scheduling of hospital nursing personnel: disaggregation to accommodate individual preferences and nonroutine constraints....Pages 623-637
Disaggregating health utilization data for planning....Pages 639-648
Scheduling workers in situations having highly variable manpower requirements....Pages 651-670
Optimal scheduling of two consecutive work periods....Pages 671-678
A simple method for obtaining cyclic employee schedules....Pages 679-688
Heuristic work force scheduling with variable shift lengths and labor productivity differences: a case study of encoder staffing....Pages 689-703