A modified heuristic procedure for materials management in project networks

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1999-06-01

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Erbasi, A
Sepil, C

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A heuristic procedure for determining the tradeoff between expediting the ordering of materials and delaying the project is presented. The heuristic procedure is a modification of the procedure taken from the literature. With the use of an illustrative example, it has been shown that the modified procedure provides schedules with lower total cost values. Experimental results performed on randomly generated problems reveal that the modification can bring a decrease in total cost values as much as 52%.

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Materials management, Project networks, Heuristic

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65581

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING-THEORY APPLICATIONS AND PRACTICE

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Department of Industrial Engineering, Article

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A. Erbasi and C. Sepil, “A modified heuristic procedure for materials management in project networks,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING-THEORY APPLICATIONS AND PRACTICE, pp. 132–140, 1999, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/65581.