In an attempt to achieve a competitive edge, automotive companies operate global
production networks to offer an ever increasing product variety, shorter and reliable lead …

This study investigates production lines consolidation in a configure-to-order production
environment using simulation and optimization strategies. The current production …

The aim of this research is to:(1) Develop an approach to integrating both human fatigue-
recovery patterns and human learning into Discrete Event Simulation models of a production …

To this day, sales & operations planning (S&OP) remains one of the most critical challenges
of supply chain management in terms of improving customers' experience level and …

A challenge for car manufacturers is to adjust rapidly and efficiently the production
capacities with a volatile market demand and despite distant suppliers. In this paper, we …

Supply chain planning as one of the most important processes within the supply chain
management concept, has a great impact on firms' success or failure. This paper considers a …

Resource levelling aims to obtain a feasible schedule to minimise the resource usage
fluctuations during project execution. It is of crucial importance in project scheduling to …

Due to increasing globalization and distant sourcing, reconciling industrial constraints and
sales requirements becomes very challenging for build-to-order industries facing an …

Providing customization of products is an important way of attracting customers, but it can
increase the complexity of planning and scheduling processes in the order fulfilment system …

In multi-mixed model assembly lines, customer orders with different demand of models and
due dates make it critical to decide the sequencing of different models and balancing of …