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

Lotsizing and scheduling comprises activities which have to be done repeatedly within MRP-systems. We consider the proportional (multi-item, capacitated, dynamic) lotsizing and scheduling problem which is more general than the discrete lotsizing and scheduling problem as well as the continuous...

Die Losgrößen- und Ablaufplanung stellt ein in PPS-Systemen wiederholt zu lösendes Problem dar. Wir zeigen zunächst mit Hilfe eines einfachen Beispiels, welche Probleme aus der Vernachlässigung der Abhängigkeiten innerhalb einer mehrstufigen Erzeugnisstruktur entstehen. Anschließend...

Three types of multi-item capacitated dynamic lotsizing and scheduling models are well established until now: The capacitated lotsizing problem, the discrete lotsizing and scheduling problem as well as the continuous setup lotsizing problem. An analysis of the underlying fundamental assumptions...