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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Operations Planning"”.
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Robust scheduling in forest operations planning
Forest operations planning is a complex decision process which considers multiple objectives on the strategic, tactical and operational horizons. Decisions such as where to harvest and in what order over different time periods are just some of the many diverse and complex decisions that are needed …
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Sales and Operations Planning: A Performance Framework
… research suggesting how to achieve it. Sales and Operations planning (S&OP) is a tactical approach meant to help firms accomplish demand and supply balance at aggregate levels. While guidebooks authored by consultants suggest best practices that lead to S&OP success, many experts agree that …
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Sales & operations planning in a global business
… to implement a process called global sales and operations planning (S&OP). Sales and operations planning is a collaborative process that aligns the supply side of an organization with the demand side. Aligning the goals of the different departments eliminates the "silo" mentality and creates a …
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Real-time operations planning and control of high-frequency transit
… well-being of large and dense cities. The planning and control of their operations are important determinants of service quality. Transit operators are increasingly adopting data collection devices that enable real-time monitoring of vehicle locations and demand, but existing models and …
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Using automatically collected data for bus service and operations planning
… This thesis evaluates several service planning scenarios using GIRO Inc.'s NetPlan software package, which is a sketch service planning and timetabling tool linked to its HASTUS automated scheduling system. The outputs of the ridership and running time analyses are used as inputs into …
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Leveraging risk management in the sales and operations planning process
(cont.) Lastly, we visited SemiCo, a leading global supplier of high performance semiconductor products, to gain first-hand insight into the S&OP process of a large multinational company and complete a brief case study about how risk management is currently being utilized within this company's S&OP …
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Improving sales and operations planning in an engineer-to-order environment
… is taken at analyzing and improving Sales and Operations Planning in a project based, engineer-to-order product line. Variability of product and components configurations and long lead times of the sales process and of material procurement during project execution place additional planning …
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Applying an enterprise architecting framework to design enterprise sales and operations planning
… has been to strive for an enterprise sales and operations planning process. Five years ago, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) Operations leaders recognized the need to be more proactive in comprehending forecasted business and subsequent impacts to SAS' manufacturing network. As a …
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Improving transit service connectivity : the application of operations planning and operations control strategies
(cont.) showed that the benefits accrued from coordinating schedules on Route 53 were not significant mainly due to the headway compatibility requirement which reduces the number of transfers amenable for improvement. Greater benefits were encountered when the schedules on the connecting routes …
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Driving Growth Through Sales and Operations Planning, Inventory Management, and Supply Chain Expansion
… for developing new processes, such as sales and operations planning (S&OP), inventory modeling, and supply chain capacity, flexibility, and resilience analyses. The research effectiveness is measured by the observed changes in throughput and financial metrics. The research illustrates that all …
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A multi-objective, decomposition-based algorithm design methodology and its application to runaway operations planning
(cont.) to the design of a heuristic decomposed algorithm for solving the ROP problem. This decomposition methodology offers an original paradigm potentially applicable to the design of solution algorithms for a class of problems with functions and parameters that, similar to those of the ROP …
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Applications of Automatic Vehicle Location systems towards improving service reliability and operations planning in London
… and enabled the development of comprehensive planning and operations tools. This thesis reviews the impact of an AVL installation in London, and demonstrates how data recorded by this system may be used to improve service reliability and operations planning on the London bus network. In …
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Improving the Effectiveness of End-of-Use Product Recovery: Operations Planning, Consumer Behavior and Design Guidelines
… the efficiency of the re-manufacturing operations can be improved by tackling these uncertainties. Most of these uncertainties originate from the consumer behavior. Consumers’ product return behavior affects the timing and quantity of the returns. For instance, consumers’ participation …
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The impact of sales and operations planning on supply chain performance : an investigation of contingency and organisational culture in S&OP implementations
S&OP is a set of business processes and technologies that enable an enterprise to respond effectively to demand and supply variability, with insight into the optimal market deployment of resources and most profitable supply chain mix. S&OP can also be described as a means for internal coordination …
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Operational planning for multiple heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles in three dimensions
… being incorporated in an increasing variety of operations. To take full advantage of the vehicles, the plans for the operations should integrate each vehicle's capabilities when planning the operations. This thesis focuses on planning operations for multiple, heterogeneous UAVs for the purpose …
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A Multilevel - Decentralized Control Approach to Reservoir Systems Operations Management (California)
… strategy is developed for the long-term operations planning and the real-time operations of a multi-purpose, multi-reservoir river basin system.
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Customer focused collaborative demand planning
… worldwide have adopted the process of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process where internal departments within a firm collaborate with each other to generate a demand forecast. In a collaborative demand planning process buyers and sellers collaborate with each other to generate a mutually …
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Demand management : a cross-industry analysis of supply-demand planning
… the importance and adoption of the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process. S&OP is driven by a cross functional team, with the purpose of balancing supply and demand with the objective of maximizing a company's goals. It manages the supply and demand uncertainties, balances the different …
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New product forecasting of appliance and consumables : bass model
… Drinkworks needed a systematic demand planning tool to generate baseline strategic and operational forecasts of their new product. These baseline forecasts would be further used as a starting point for sales and operations planning, production planning and material resource planning. …
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