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Abstract Purpose--The purpose of this paper is to analyze the status of gross and net working capital and their association with sales of Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd, with reference [...]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.10.019 Byline: Kazuki Matsumoto (a), Hiroyoshi Miwa (b), Toshihide Ibaraki (b) Keywords: Scheduling; Corrugated paper; Complexity; Contiguous set; Integer programming Abstract: Corrugated paper is produced by gluing three types of papers of the same breadth. Given a set of orders, we first assign each order to one of the standard breadths, and then sequence those assigned to each standard breadth so that they are continuously manufactured from the three rolls of the specified standard breadth equipped in the machine called corrugator. Here we are asked to achieve multi-goals of minimizing total length of roll papers, total loss of papers caused by the differences between standard breadths and real breadths of the orders, and the number of machine stops needed during production. We use integer programming to assign orders to standard breadths, and then develop a special purpose algorithm to sequence the orders assigned to each standard breadth. This is a first attempt to handle scheduling problems of the corrugator machine. Author Affiliation: (a) Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan (b) Department of Informatics, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2-1 Gakuen Sanda, Hyogo 669-1337, Japan Article History: Received 24 March 2007; Accepted 5 October 2007

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2007.08.033 Byline: Philip C. Jones, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann Keywords: OR in agriculture; Forest economics; Normal forest; Regulated forest; Newsvendor model; Forestry supply chain management Abstract: We consider a vertically integrated papermaking operation composed of an integrated pulp and paper mill with its regional supply network. Considering land procurement and harvest rotation as strategic decision variables, we construct a model to establish a long-range timber supply plan that minimizes the total discounted cost of meeting annual virgin wood fiber demand over an infinite horizon. Under appropriate assumptions on costs and storage, the land procurement and harvest rotation decisions are separable with harvest rotation being determined via a forest economics-type equation and land procurement being determined by a newsvendor-type equation. Author Affiliation: Department of Management Sciences, 108 John Pappajohn Business Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1994, United States Article History: Received 18 January 2006; Accepted 24 August 2007

Phnom Penh -- On a far-flung riverbank in southwest Cambodia last spring, Buth Ran peered out of her wooden stilt home to see a sagging barge unload a half-dozen logging [...]

Four years ago, the Clinton Administration considered promulgating an executive order which would have required the federal government to purchase totally chlorine-free (TCF) paper to satisfy a small portion of [...]

Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hebrard, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2012) AFTER A CHANCE DISCOVERY of a piece of [...]

For most of the nineteenth century Britain held an undisputed lead in the field of paper-machine technology. By the 1890s this lead had been lost to America. This article argues that Britain's loss of technological pre-eminence at this time had much more to do with the greater scale of the American market and the willingness of American manufacturers to embrace schemes that enhanced technological accumulation than it did to any protracted adherence to outdated and traditional practices that some British workers might have had. The article also outlines a general framework for the analysis of the rate of innovation achieved through learning., The relative economic decline of Britain since the last quarter of the nineteenth century has often been attributed to its firms' continued predilection for small-scale batch production and highly skilled [...]

A container loading software package for solving the different problems involved in the containerization of pulp and paper products is presented. The software boasts of a packing algorithm for creating a two-dimensional pattern for placing reels on the floor of container, a heuristic algorithm for two-dimensional stowing of reels of a common diameter and a second packing algorithm for stowing pallets of various sizes. Its applicability has been validated in several decision situations which include the determination of feasible reel diameters and efficient stowage patterns.

Since the mid-1970s the European Community's (EC) position in the world economy has become more precarious. Two hundred years ago, several European countries were core nations of the capitalist world [...]

AMIDST THE ECONOMIC crisis of 2009 and the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, one key strategic challenge for Canadian labour is how to hold the line and [...]

Timothy J. Minchin, The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2001) IN THE COLOR OF [...]

Can you imagine a pile of 150 million tons of waste paper? That is approximately the quantity the OECD countries generated in 1990, the largest amount ever. Compressed into bales, [...]

SAKARI HEIKKINEN, Paper for the World: The Finnish Paper Mills' Association: Finnpap, 1918-1996 (Helsinki: Otava Publishing Company, 2000. Pp.523; illus. H/back ISBN 951 1 16330 2, no price given). The [...]

J. Meijaard, M.J. Brand and M. Mosselman (2001), `Organisational Structures in SMEs: Occurrence and Clusters', paper presented to the 15th RENT Conference, Turku, November. J. Maes, L. Sels and F. [...]

A summary of research working papers that are relevant especially to managers and policy-makers.

Issues are presented concerning the primitive concepts and oversights in the 'jump search' heuristic presented by S. Tsubakitani and J.R. Evans in their research paper entitled 'An empirical study of a new metaheuristic for the traveling salesman problem'.

CHASTON'S PAPER CONSIDERS THE application of the Danish Technology Institute's networking project (DTINP) in a UK context. The paper starts by suggesting that the DTINP is premised on the notion [...]

Usage of pairwise comparison method in sense of analytic hierarchy process to rank factors affecting industrial decision making process is discussed.

The current, and justified, fascination with the tacit component of knowledge ... must not cloud the fact that organisations to a large extent are 'articulation machines,' built around codified practices [...]

Scandinavian companies have tended to be predominant in the European paper and pulp industry, but this is changing as waste paper is increasingly used as a raw material. The business system framework is a useful tool for analysing the paper and pulp industry. In some ways an integrated European business system is developing with convergence between systems in Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe. However, core competencies such as conservation of forests still divide the Scandinavian system from those elsewhere in Europe.

ROBERT BENNETT HAS CONTRIBUTED significantly to academic and policy debates on the role of the UK's Training and Enterprise Councils in promoting smal-scale enterprise and in this paper focuses on [...]

PAUL B. ISRAEL, KEITH A. NIER and LOUIS CARLAT (eds.), The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. The Wizard of Menlo Park. 1878. Vol. 4. (Baltimore, MD and London: Johns Hopkins [...]

The world is losing its forests, and fast. Three quarters of the earth's land mass were once covered with forests. Half of those forests have already been destroyed or converted [...]

THE NEED FOR TRAINING AND ITS advantages to firms, individuals and the economy are now widely accepted in Britain. Over the past decade and a half, training has become an [...]

INTEREST IN THE CONCEPT OF THE 'industrial district' is now well established in several academic disciplines and especially in the area of small business studies. There are, however, more and [...]

Over the past fifteen years, A substantial body of research findings has been steadily published in almost all of the developed countries, which in general has supported the view that [...]

A revision was made of the Christofides, Alvarez-Valdez and Tamarit (CAT) procedure for solving the single project scheduling problem. A 9-activity counterexample problem was used to prove that the branching strategy that was originally implemented can generate nonoptimal solutions. The construction of additional precedence relations or delay arcs used in the original CAT procedure for delaying activities was proven to be highly restrictive.

Abstract In reference [2], we used the elementary method to study the mean value properties of a new arithmetical function, and obtained two mean value formulae for it, but there [...]

The shift from a centrally planned socialist economy to a market-driven economy initiated by the Chinese government in the 1970s marked the beginning of one of the most significant economic [...]

J.N. BARTLETT, (London: Athlone, 1997. Pp.xii + 208; illus. ISBN 0485 1 1514X, £32). In 1796 Charles Davidson, a millwright and son of an Aberdeenshire dyer, went into partnership with [...]

KATHARINE BLIGH, (London: The Stationery Office, 1997. Pp.xiii + 149. ISBN 0 10 850673 8, £45). William Aitken, better known by his title as (1st) Lord Beaverbrook, was one of [...]

THIS PAPER LOOKS EXCLUSIVELY AT MICRO enterprises, those with less than ten employees. Generally, studies of the issues addressed by this paper have not focussed on micro firms, and even [...]

These two volumes contain 50 papers by Alan M. Rugman, Professor of International Business at the University of Toronto, which have been published over the last 20 years (1975-95) in [...]

Despite the absence of a formal organisation or society, Canadian business historians do hold occasional meetings. The first volume of Canadian Papers in Business History was based on papers given [...]

The article assesses the various accounts, which explain the disappointing outcomes thus far of civil society participation in the design and implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRPS) in aid receiving countries. A bleak future for PRSP participation and argues that the project's failure may increase the crisis of legitimacy faced by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the very crisis that led to the launch of the PRSP initiative is presented.

This study harks back to a debate that was popular amongst some economic historians in the 1960s and early 1970s - the comparative performance of UK and American industry in [...]

As the sub-title implies, this study attempts to combine two themes: an explanatory account of modern German history and the role of Hamburg and its leading businessmen in it. Clearly, [...]

Samuel Gompers was a (and, for much of the time, the) major moderate figure in the American labour movement for nearly four decades from the late 1880s. This volume deals [...]

Richard Wilson (2000), Bank Finance: The Results of an IoD Questionnaire, IoD `Policy Paper, London, Institute of Directors, January, pp19, 5.00 £. POLITICIANS AND OTHERS FREQUENTLY argue that a major [...]