Examination of worker assignment and dispatching rules for managing vital customer priorities in dual resource constrained job shop environments

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 525-537

  Kher, Hemant V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer service; Delivery performance; Multi class job shop systems; Scheduling rules

Indexed keywords

OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PUBLIC POLICY;

DUAL RESOURCE CONSTRAINED (DRC) JOB SHOP ENVIRONMENTS;

SCHEDULING;

RETAILING;

EID: 0033999129     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(99)00038-6     Document Type: Article

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