... firm; and too much time spent in the system. System-related problems include the usage of parallel systems and inadequate usage of the appropriate potential of the APS system. Plan-related problems regard an incorrect production plan. Different relationships between the ITO dimensions...

... Production planning Operations and production management Japan Furthermore, some studies on the relationship between external collaboration and performance (Akikawa, 2004 ; Frohlich and Westbrook, 2001 ; Simatupang and Sridharan, 2005) were conducted in European and Asian/Pacific countries...

... Optimization techniques Production planning Meat Norway This paper reports on an MIP model created for a project that has been set up with The Norwegian Meat Research Centre (Fagsenteret for kjøtt), Molde University College, and the largest cooperative and private slaughterhouses in Norway, Gilde...

... data. The key finding is that even for products with stable demand a partial improvement of demand visibility can improve production and inventory control efficiency, but that the value of visibility greatly depends on the target products’ replenishment frequencies and the production planning cycle...