Background: The capacity planning of production systems is one of the most fundamental strategic problems in the creation of a production plant. However, the implementation of increasingly complex production systems combined with sophisticated automated material handling justifies the...

Life expectancy rates have increased substantially in Ireland in recent years, driven mainly by reductions in mortality rates at older ages. Accordingly, Ireland has seen large increases in its older population, and along with this increasing demand for health and social care services,...

Purpose: Providing timely access is an important measure of patient satisfaction in specialty care clinics such as cancer centers. Excessive patient wait time to see an oncologist is very critical for cancer patients as they often benefit from starting the treatment process as soon as possible....

Online restaurant aggregators, which connect diners with restaurants and organize the delivery of ordered meals, have experienced significant growth in recent years. Meal delivery logistics is quite challenging, primarily due to the difficulty in managing the supply of delivery resources, i.e.,...

Over the coming decades, Kenya is likely to see a large increase in electricity demand driven by economic growth and wider electrification of different sectors. At the same time, Kenya remains committed to maintain its high share of renewable generation. This study proposes a novel framework to...

One objective of retail electricity markets is to enable end-use consumers to incorporate their reliability preferences into their purchasing decisions. This paper investigates if and how this can be done in electricity markets with a capacity requirement. It integrates the standard loss of load...

Purpose: This research develops a model integrating inventory with order pick-up that considers both the vendor's capacities and the pick-up time for the multi-vendor single-buyer (MVSB) system. Design/methodology/approach: A model of integrating inventory with pick-up of order considering both...

Purpose: Although the authors of the Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) argue that the method DDMRP is the solution to the limitations of traditional production management methods, its capacity management system remains unclear. Since DDMRP operates at infinite capacity, it is...

This paper analyses capacity markets and proposes an approach to incorporate the flexibility of residential consumers in these markets considering reliability as a differentiated product. We introduce and assess the potential of non-linear pricing schemes, specifically priority pricing...

The presence of congestion is a common scenario in tertiary-level hospitals worldwide. Current research suggests that an increase in hospital bed capacity is not a long-term solution given that patient demand adapts to added capacity. Recent literature suggests the need for the implementation of...

The aim of this bibliometric study is to examine carbon transparency within global supply chains and the mediating roles of institutional and innovative capacities. The study retrieved 116 documents from Scopus and Web of Science databases for the period 2001-2023. The study unveils three...

The planning practice of health care capacities suffers from sectoral and regional constraints and it remains difficult to ensure an equal access for patients. Moreover, standard planning approaches lack the choice-theoretic grounding necessary for making reliable predictions of the demand and...