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Autor:
Sophie D. Lapierre, Angel Ruiz
Publikováno v:
Computers & Operations Research. 34:624-641
This paper presents an innovative approach for improving hospital logistics by coordinating the procurement and distribution operations while respecting inventory capacities. Instead of focusing on multi-echelon inventory decisions, our approach put
Publikováno v:
European Journal of Operational Research. 168:826-837
Balancing assembly lines is a crucial task for manufacturing companies in order to improve productivity and minimize production costs. Despite some progress in exact methods to solve large scale problems, softwares implementing simple heuristics are
Autor:
Angel Ruiz, Sophie D. Lapierre
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Operational Research Society. 55:589-597
This paper presents a case study where a practical balancing problem for an assembly line of appliances with two sides and two different heights is solved with an enhanced priority-based heuristic. We show how to adapt such heuristic to account for t
Publikováno v:
Transportation Science. 38:174-187
The fast development of transport activities and the introduction of shipment consolidation have considerably changed the logistics context over the last three decades. Consolidation terminals, also called transshipment centers (TC) or hubs, have jus
Autor:
Angel Ruiz, Sophie D. Lapierre
Publikováno v:
Logistique & Management. 12:5-11
Cet article presente les avantages d’une approche axee sur la coordination des activites d’achat et de distribution pour ameliorer la logistique d’un service d’approvisionnement hospitalier. Face aux modeles d’inventaire multi-echelons, l
Autor:
Abdelnasser Saı̈di, Urs Maag, François Bellavance, Sophie D. Lapierre, Claire Laberge-Nadeau, Denise Desjardins, Stéphane Messier
Publikováno v:
Accident Analysis & Prevention. 35:649-660
In light of the rapidly increasing development of the cell phone market, the use of such equipment while driving raises the question of whether it is associated with an increased accident risk; and if so, what is its magnitude. This research is an ep
Autor:
Sophie D. Lapierre, Vedat Verter
Publikováno v:
Annals of Operations Research. 110:123-132
This paper is focused on the problem of locating preventive health care facilities. The aim is to maximize participation to prevention programs. We assume that distance is a major determinant of participation and people would go to the closest facili
Autor:
Michael W. Carter, Sophie D. Lapierre
Publikováno v:
Health Care Management Science. 4:347-360
This paper introduces the problem of scheduling emergency room physicians. We interviewed physicians from six hospitals in the greater Montreal, Canada area, in order to understand the emergency room scheduling problem. Extracting the real scheduling
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Production Research. 38:3899-3911
This paper considers the placement of components onto printed circuit boards (PCBs) using surface mount technology. Multiple automatic placement machines, a variety of PCB types and a large volume for each PCB type characterize the environment studie
Publikováno v:
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 33:25-38
This paper considers the problem of allocating a number of beds to the different medical and surgical specialties in a hospital. This task is complicated by the fact that patterns of patient arrivals differ among specialties, that the scheduling of m