International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 15 Issue 8

Manufacturing strategy in business units: An analysis of production process focus and performance

Samuel Wathen

Presents a study which explored a relationship between productionprocess focus and performance at the business unit level using theprofit impact of marketing strategies (PIMS…

Culture, cognitive dissonance and the management of change

Bernard Burnes, Hakeem James

In the 1980s it became increasingly apparent that the management ofchange is a crucial factor in organizational performance. However, itbecame equally apparent that many…

Environmental management and its impact on the operations function

Mahesh C. Gupta

Recently, corporations have been confronted with a number of globalenvironmental challenges such as global warming, acid rain, depletion ofnatural resources, waste management…

Production data modelling: an integrated approach

Chung‐Hsing Yeh

An effective production planning and control system requirescombining the bill of material (BOM) and routeing data to reflect thematerial flow through the production process…

Animating an integrated job shop/flexible manufacturing system

Chris Stylianides

Modern manufacturing facilities include conventional work centresas well as flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). Discusses computersimulation software which simulates and…

Production control in the food processing industry: The need for flexibility in operations scheduling

Michel Nakhla

Analyses the problems of production scheduling in the dairy productindustry where variety and sell‐by date constraints have to be takeninto account. Using the formalization of…

“A simulation analysis of ordering policies under inflationary conditions”: A critique

James M. Wilson

Mehra and Amini presented an inflation‐adjusted economic orderquantity that found order quantities were stable for a range ofinflation rates. This stability was a consequence of…