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A Manufacturing Cost Model for Computer‐integrated Manufacturing Systems
Dileep G. DhavaleThe product‐costing techniques developed for conventional job shopsare unsuitable for use in computer‐integrated manufacturing systems(CIMS) and their continued use in the CIMS…
Sourcing/Contracting Strategy Selection
J. Ramsay, I. WilsonThe strategy combination of single sourcing and long‐term contractsis rapidly becoming the norm in progressive purchasing functions. Theimplications of this radical development is…
Multiple Performance Measures in the Selection of a Sequencing Rule
Marilyn S. Jones, Roberta S. RussellWhile it is well known that managers make scheduling decisionsbased on multiple objectives, the majority of sequencing research isdirected towards single criterion assessments of…
Thinking about Catering Systems
Peter Jones, Alan HuelinThe operational analysis of catering operations is constrained bythe lack of an internationally accepted taxonomy and the seeminglyinfinite variety of operations. The development…
Organisational Structure Considerations in the Next Decade: Implications for Operations Management
Yunus Kathawala, B.P. LingarajCentralisation and decentralisation of the US economy is examined.How the organisational structures are changing, and why these changesare coming about, reasons such as technology…
Business Productivity Measurement Using Standard Cost Accounting Information
Thomas J. FisherThe measurement of productivity has been a problem area for manyyears because of the difficulties inherent in precisely defining andquantifying all the outputs and inputs which…
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Tobias Schoenherr
- Prof. Constantin Blome
- Robert D. Klassen