...Amir Nourmohammadi; Hamidreza Eskandari Purpose This paper aims to optimize the configuration of assembly lines (ALs) considering the two long-term decision problems within the line balancing and part feeding (PF) contexts, when the supermarket concept is applied in PF. Design/methodology...

...Dr. Maurizio Faccio, Dr. Yuval Cohen; Mohammed Alnahhal; Bernd Noche Purpose – This purpose of this paper is to investigate the location problem of supermarkets, feeding by material the mixed model assembly lines using tow trains. It determines the number and the locations of these supermarkets...

... of space (Emde and Boysen, 2012b). Such trends are particularly stressed for manufacturers following the just-in-time (JIT) pattern. To face these potential efficiency losses, companies frequently adopt the so-called supermarket concept to deliver small batches of parts to the lines through frequent round...