Despite the widespread adoption of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, it is known that these systems suffer from inherent shortcomings which undermine their decision support capabilities. The crux of the problem lies at the midterm planning level (i.e. sales and operations planning,...

Despite the widespread adoption of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, it is known that these systems suffer from inherent shortcomings which undermine their decision support capabilities. The crux of the problem lies at the midterm planning level (i.e. sales and operations planning,...

Variability is known to degrade performance in manufacturing and service environments in some way. If no measures are taken to reduce variability, systems can be protected from the negative impact of variability by installing buffers. One can choose between three buffer types: inventory buffers,...

Variability is known to degrade performance in manufacturing and service environments in some way. If no measures are taken to reduce variability, systems can be protected from the negative impact of variability by installing buffers. One can choose between three buffer types: inventory buffers,...