Purpose – The paper seeks to report on some of the preliminary results of an ongoing scoping study into the shape of the manufacturing enterprise of the future. Design/methodology/approach – This paper evolved through a combination of literature review, focused group discussions, interviews...

Load consolidation decisions constitute one of the most important operational decisions in logistics. In demand-driven truckload shipment businesses, third-party logistics companies (or agencies) try to assign orders to the most appropriate trucks which are available for the load assignment....

In this paper, an integer quadratic programming model is proposed for workload balancing in the examination job assignment problem. The proposed model can be classified as part of the 'Generalised Assignment Problem' or GAP, which is known as an NP-hard problem. To solve the proposed model, a...

In this paper, the effects of dispatching rules on the scheduling performance of job-shops with different flexibility levels are analyzed. Four different flexibility levels are defined for operations. Five dispatching rules are evaluated according to mean tardiness as the performance criteria...