La prise en compte de la demande client pour la planification tactique dans les chaînes logistiques est un enjeu crucial pour leur bon fonctionnement. L'environnement concurrentiel actuel rend difficile l'engagement des clients sur le moyen terme. Dès lors, il est nécessaire de développer...

Performance improvement in supply chains, taking into account customer demand in the tactical planning process is essential. It is more and more difficult for the customers to ensure a certain level of demand over a medium term horizon as their own customers ask them for personalisation and fast...

To improve the supply chains performance, taking into account the customer demand in the tactical planning process is essential. It is more and more difficult for the customers to insure a certain level of demand over a medium term period. Then it is necessary to develop methods and decision...

For some specific types of construction projects, the classical CPM or PDM scheduling techniques are not the most suitable. Few specific scheduling approaches have been developed to cope with construction projects that are made of either repetitive activities or activities with linear...

Decision-making under uncertainty implies dealing with information about different choices and their consequences that is partial for the decision-maker. In front of uncertainty, either the decision can be postponed, waiting for complementary information or the decision can be only made on the...

In R\&D projects, managers face a high degree of uncertainty due to their lack of experience with innovative products. However, managers, usually within a group, have to decide under uncertainty, to make the projects advance. In this context, some delays result from indecision or invalidation of...

In pharmaceutical industry, decision-makers have to decide whether to continue drug development projects which are very expensive, risky and long. Such decisions are made collectively, under a high degree of uncertainty and in non-emergency situations. The major problem in this context is...

The project management team has to respect contractual commitments, in terms of deadlines and budgets, that are often two antagonistic functions. Then, during the invitation to tender phase or when faced with a risk situation, it has to determine its risk management strategy.

Performance is an issue today in production management. Thus, every decision-maker within the production management system must make his own decisions in relation to local objectives which must be defined and valued consistently within the global objectives of the system. Based on this...