IBM blends heuristics and optimization to plan its semiconductor supply chain

Interfaces

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 130-141

  Degbotse, Alfred ^a   Denton, Brian T ^b   Fordyce, Kenneth ^a   Milne, R John ^c   Orzell, Robert ^a   Wang, Chi Tai ^d  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Industries: computer, electronic; Information systems: management, decision support systems; Production, scheduling: planning; Programming: linear, integer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876857684     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1120.0642     Document Type: Article

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