The paper reviews 'classic approaches' to Production Planning and Control (PPC) such as
Kanban, Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) and Theory of Constrains (TOC), and …

The workload control (WLC) concept has received much attention in the past three decades;
however, a comprehensive literature review has not been presented. In response, this article …

Over the past 20 years, the topic of order acceptance has attracted considerable attention
from those who study scheduling and those who practice it. In a firm that strives to align its …

An existing taxonomy of workload control rules is adapted to classify 25 workload control
rules and their components examined in prior research to create a basis to model how three …

Many vendors of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems claim their products are
widely applicable–configurable to meet the needs of any business, whatever the product or …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a successful implementation of a
comprehensive workload control (WLC) concept; and to describe the associated …

The paradigm shift toward Industry 4.0 is facilitating human capability, and at the center of
the research are the workers—Operator 4.0—and their knowledge. For example, new …

Existing card-based production control systems such as Kanban are mostly dedicated to
repetitive production environments. Cards-based systems for job shop control are lacking …

This paper deals with improving the lead-time performance of a large crystal manufacturer
that uses a state-of-the-art commercial Enterprise Resource Planning system. Since the …

Make-to-order (MTO) is becoming vital for meeting ever-changing customer requirements.
Growing demand for customized items has been linked to a rise in the proportion of MTO …