Despite the growing body of literature on sales and operation planning (S&OP), efforts to
synthesise the overall state of the art of research in this area are limited. Within this context …

Purpose–This paper aims to improve upon the highly dispersed sales and operations
planning (S&OP) research by integrating the findings of existing studies to identify and …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new framework to optimise the design of halal
food supply chains, called the “Halal Supply Chain Model”. In this research the main …

Despite the envisioned interrelations, the way Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) technologies can influence
the design and implementation of lean value streams is still unknown and little empirical …

The duration of logistics operations, as well as the environmental conditions during these
operations, significantly impact the performance of a logistics network for fresh agricultural …

The focus of operations planning and control for manufacturing firms has expanded
successively over the last 50 years. New principles, techniques, and systems have emerged …

For product designers, tools and techniques are essential in driving the design cycle.
Nevertheless, their employment usually is implicit, while passing over eg the design and …

Purpose A trade-off exists between product variety and supply chain (SC) performance. To
help mitigate the impact on SC of increased product variety, the purpose of this paper is to …

Abstract Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods,
models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This …

Digital transformation poses a challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
with an Engineer-to-Order (ETO) production characterized by a low-variant and low-volume …