This paper deals with lot sizing and scheduling for a single-stage production System where setup costs and times are sequence dependent. A large bücket mixed integer programming (MIP) model is formulated which considers only efficient sequences. A tailor-made enumeration method of the...

Sales force deployment involves the concurrent resolution of four interrelated subproblems: sizing the sales force, salesman location, sales territory alignment, and sales resource allocation. The first subproblem addresses the topic of selecting the appropriate number of salesman. The salesman...

This paper deals with proportional lot sizing and scheduling (PLSP) and gives some insights into the properties of this problem. Such insights may be useful for developing heuristic and/or exact solution procedures. The emphasis of this paper is on the multi-level, multi-machine case. We provide...