Calibrating cross-training to meet demand mix variation and employee absence

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2015.07.036zbMATH Open1346.90473OpenAlexW942581473MaRDI QIDQ320699FDOQ320699

David Nembhard, Jordi Olivella

Publication date: 7 October 2016

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/100267

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zbMATH Keywords

manpower planningflexibilityproductioncross-trainingconstraint selection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30) Theory of organizations, manpower planning in operations research (90B70)

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