There has been much debate on the relevance to firms of the academic research produced by business schools. However, what has not received as much attention is how the relevance of the research to businesses should be measured in a systematic and empirical way. We develop a systematic method to...

This paper proposes an integrated optimization model of aggregate production planning (APP), family disaggregation planning, and family scheduling problems in hierarchical production planning (HPP) systems considering sequence-dependent family setup times. The model obtains the optimal...