Assembly line balancing is to know how tasks are to be assigned to workstations, so that the predetermined goal is achieved. Minimization of the number of workstations and maximization of the production rate are the most common goals. This paper presents the actual case different components...

BACKGROUND The 2014 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines state that mitral valve diseases should be repaired at a Center of Excellence (CoE). We evaluate the cost-effectiveness of such referrals. METHODS We estimate patients’ life...

The poor success rates that US manufacturing companies have experienced with computerized process and information technologies are reviewed. Reasons for this lack of success are also reviewed, indicating that inadequate pre-planning for the social as well as technology changes concommitant with...

If they want employees to take collective responsibility for customers, managers must do more than reorganize. Thousands of businesses have reengineered work in order to focus employees on processes that clearly provide value to customers. Tbey have done away with their functional silos and...

We study a hybrid strategy that uses both process flexibility and finished goods inventory for supply chain risk mitigation. The interplay between process flexibility and inventory is modeled as a two-stage robust optimization problem. In the first stage, the firm allocates inventory before...

Purpose: This paper proposes a comprehensive and coherent approach for managing risks in supply chains. Methodology/Approach: Building on Tummala et al.’s (1994) Risk Management Process (RMP) this paper develops a structured and ready-to-use approach for managers to assess and manage risks in...

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) have been implemented for the past 15 years in both large-scale and Small & Mid-size Enterprise (SME) organizations. The implementation processes have evolved as the result of perilous attempts as organizations encountered numerous problems, financial...

The increasing rate of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use needed to be developed by Indonesian higher learning institutions in the Competitive Environment of the Global Education Industry is influencing the higher education "industry" as we know it nowadays. This new ICT...

While value creation and the capture of strategic choices regarding firm boundaries, such as ‘make’ versus ‘buy’ or different forms of collaboration, have been carefully studied on the individual level from one value-creating lens at a time, their interconnections and the overall...

During the past decade employee turnover have become a very serious problem for Organisations. Managing retention and keeping the turnover rate below the target and Industry norms is one of the most challenging issues. Even as economic times changed, Turnover will continue to be an important...