This research studies the hybrid flowshop scheduling problem. In this production configuration, we have a set of jobs that has to be processed in a set of stages. At every stage we have a set of parallel machines available ...

This paper aims to explore the advance of the diffusion of the financial logic on the national clothing retail in the promotion of consumer credit in Brazil. In this sense, it looks to verify how this advance is configured ...

The investments made in wind energy have been growing globally over the years, aiming at sustainable alternatives for the segment. However, this growth carries with it an increase in the consumption of production materials ...

This research is based on the concepts of the social structure theory by Pierre Bourdieu and total production management, which pretends to analyze the process of social reproduction during the application of the OEE ...

Companies in the distribution sector of non-durable consumer goods in Brazil suffer with the sales' concentration at the end of the marketing period, i.e., when a large amount of deliveries to customers occur in the last ...

The credit analysis for individuals has traditionally relied on three pillars: documentary proof of income and residence; refers to negative credit bureaus as SERASA and SCPC and the use of forecasting models based on the ...

This research was intended to contribute about the understanding of the product development process (PDP) of Assistive Technology (AT), by using a multicases study methodology. The considerations present in this work were ...

In contemporary marketing structure notices the growing quest for competitive advantage of organizations. In this context, we highlight the performance management that can assist in the search for competitiveness and dairy ...

Strategic decisions such as layout and tactical and operational decisions such as control policies affect warehouse performance criteria (costs, throughput, storage capacity and response time). Once taken, these decisions ...