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A new approach to capacity planning and scheduling
Author(s) -
NOVELS MIKE
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of dairy technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1471-0307
pISSN - 1364-727X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0307.1996.tb02488.x
Subject(s) - scheduling (production processes) , production planning , operations research , process management , computer science , capacity management , function (biology) , production (economics) , business , operations management , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , economics , microeconomics , computer network , evolutionary biology , biology
The ever increasing pressures from the marketplace have caused companies to reassess how the production planning function is carried out and to look for tools that will support the decision making process and generate achievable schedules in a timely manner. This paper describes the use of finite capacity scheduling tools developed as part of a European collaborative project, illustrates their use with two case studies in the food and drinks sector and discusses how these may influence the way that variable costs are measured.