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作者：Chow, Vincent S.; Puterman, Martin L.; Salehirad, Neda; Huang, Wenhai; Atkins, Derek
作者单位：British Columbia Cancer Agency; University of British Columbia
摘要：High surgical bed occupancy levels often result in heightened staff stress, frequent surgical cancellations, and long surgical wait times. This congestion is in part attributable to surgical scheduling practices, which often focus on the efficient use of operating rooms but ignore resulting downstream bed utilization. This paper describes a transparent and portable approach to improve scheduling practices, which combines a Monte Carlo simulation model and a mixed integer programming (MIP) mode...
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作者：White, Denise L.; Froehle, Craig M.; Klassen, Kenneth J.
作者单位：Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; Brock University
摘要：In outpatient healthcare clinics, capacity, patient flow, and scheduling are rarely managed in an integrated fashion, so a question of interest is whether clinic performance can be improved if the policies that guide these decisions are set jointly. Despite the potential importance of this issue, we find surprisingly few studies that look at how the allocation of capacity, paired with various appointment scheduling policies and different patient flow configurations, affects patient flow and cl...
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作者：MacDonald, Corinne; Gunn, Eldon A.
作者单位：Dalhousie University
摘要：A framework for the analysis of manufacturing systems operating under a production authorization card (PAC) system is outlined. The PAC system provides a single model, which encompasses a broad variety of control strategies, including Kanban and CONWIP. This paper describes a framework for the performance analysis and comparison of both specific and families of control strategies. The framework starts with system performance measures estimated by simulation. These simulations in turn provide t...
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作者：Teyarachakul, Sunantha; Chand, Suresh; Ward, James
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：This paper investigates the effect of learning and forgetting on production scheduling decisions. Numerous papers have appeared on this topic in the last four decades; they show that firms are better off producing in larger batches in the presence of learning and forgetting. However, these papers fail to consider one or more of realistic features of learning and forgetting; factors such as (1) the amount forgotten increases with break length between two batches and (2) the forgetting could be ...
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作者：Lee, Jung Young; Swink, Morgan; Pandejpong, Temyos
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Texas Christian University; Korea University; King Mongkuts University of Technology Thonburi
摘要：This paper examines the roles of three elements of intellectual capital in implementing process innovations. Building upon prior literature, we develop a model describing how worker expertise, information sharing quality, and psychological safety work together as elements of the human, structural, and social dimensions of intellectual capital to influence the technical success of manufacturing process innovation (MPI) projects. Results of an analysis of data describing 179 MPI projects in US f...
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作者：Somlo, Barbara; Rajaram, Kumar; Ahmadi, Reza
作者单位：Amgen; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We consider the distribution planning problem in the motion picture industry. This problem involves forecasting theater-level box office revenues for a given movie and using these forecasts to choose the best locations to screen a movie. We first develop a method that predicts theater-level box office revenues over time for a given movie as a function of movie attributes and theater characteristics. These estimates are then used by the distributor to choose where to screen the movie. The distr...
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作者：Patrick, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Ottawa
摘要：Much attention has been paid to lengthy wait times in emergency departments (EDs) and much research has sought to improve ED performance. However, ED congestion is often caused by the inability to move patients into the wards while the wards in turn are often congested primarily due to patients waiting for a bed in a long-term care (LTC) facility. The scheduling of clients to LTC is a complex problem that is compounded by the variety of LTC beds (different facilities and room accommodations), ...
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作者：May, Jerrold H.; Spangler, William E.; Strum, David P.; Vargas, Luis G.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Duquesne University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper reviews the general problem of surgical scheduling. We organize the literature based on the time frame or planning horizon of the schedule into six categories: capacity planning, process reengineering/redesign, the surgical services portfolio, procedure duration estimation, schedule construction, and schedule execution, monitoring, and control. We survey past work and suggest topics for potential future research in each of those areas.
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作者：Schoenherr, Tobias; Mabert, Vincent A.
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：This research explores procurement strategies for multi-item requests for quotation (RFQs) in business-to-business (B2B) markets using responses from 825 purchasing professionals. The study first establishes procurement strategies that differ based on their level of strategic emphasis, i.e., the importance that is placed on the pursuit of four strategic objectives. Underlying objectives, which are obtained via factor analysis, include the focus on price, security of supply, internal procuremen...
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作者：Allon, Gad; Zeevi, Assaf
作者单位：Northwestern University; Columbia University
摘要：We address the simultaneous determination of pricing, production, and capacity investment decisions by a monopolistic firm in a multi-period setting under demand uncertainty. We analyze the optimal decision with particular emphasis on the relationship between price and capacity. We consider models that allow for either bi-directional price changes or models with markdowns only, and in the latter case we prove that capacity and price are strategic substitutes.
