In this paper, I provide some observations on how the academic field of Operations Management has changed over the past 40 years. For this purpose, I have identified and classified the Operations Management papers published in Management Science in 1976 and in 2016. Based on this review I...

The recent paper [Saipe, A. L. 1977. Production runs for multiple products: the two-product heuristic. Management Sci. 23 (12, August) 1321-1327.] by Saipe considers the single-machine multi-product lot scheduling problem, this problem is concened with the determination of run sizes for a set of...

Increasing manufacturing flexibility is a key strategy for efficiently improving market responsiveness in the face of uncertain future product demand. Process flexibility results from being able to build different types of products in the same plant or production facility at the same time. In...

We address how to configure the supply chain for a new product for which the design has already been decided. The central question is to determine what suppliers, parts, processes, and transportation modes to select at each stage in the supply chain. There might be multiple options to supply a...

We are indebted to Jack Muckstadt and Howard Singer for calling our attention to two errors in [Graves, S. C., Schwarz, L. B. 1977. Single cycle continuous review policies for arborescent production/inventory systems. Management Sci. 23 (5, January) 529-540.].

In this paper we develop a resource planning and allocation model for a mental-health community-support system. The intent of the model is to provide a tool to system managers and planners to support resource planning and allocation decision-making. More and more, mental health care is being...

This paper considers a multi-stage, serial inventory system. The demand for the end item is stochastic and stationary. The relevant costs include a fixed ordering cost and an echelon inventory holding cost for each stage, and a backordering cost for the end item. The objective is to find a...

A recent journal article [Berry, W. L., Rao, V. 1975. Critical ratio scheduling: an experimental analysis. Management Sci. 22 (2, October) 192-201.] by Berry and Rao on job shop scheduling reported some counterintuitive results concerning the use of dynamic operating information in making...

This note considers two single-machine multi-product scheduling problems with deterministic demand that have appeared in the management science literature: the economic lot scheduling problem and the joint replenishment problem. These problems are shown to be closely related. In addition, they...

In the past few years, increasing numbers of automatic warehousing systems using computer-controlled stacker cranes have been installed. Our research concerns the scientific scheduling and design of these systems. There are three elements to scheduling: the assignment of multiple items to the...