New research published in the INFORMS journal Operations Research shows that healthcare systems can substantially reduce overtime, idle time and overall staffing costs by adopting a multilocation, ...

Abstract: In a distributed heterogeneous factory (DHF), an order can be assigned to multiple factories for production. Although this method reduces production costs, it can cause reduced loading ...

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Abstract: This article investigates a dynamic slab assignment problem (DSAP) that arises in the slab production process of steel industry. In DSAP, a set of slabs and orders arrive dynamically at each ...

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