Dynamic order acceptance and capacity planning in a stochastic multi-project environment with a bottleneck resource

作者：Melchiors Philipp; Leus Roel; Creemers Stefan; Kolisch Rainer^*

来源：International Journal of Production Research, 2018, 56(1-2): 459-475.

DOI：10.1080/00207543.2018.1431417

• order acceptance
• capacity planning
• multi-project scheduling
• Markov decision processes
• dynamic arrivals

We study the integration of order acceptance and capacity planning in multi-project environments with dynamically arriving projects. We model this planning problem as a continuous-time Markov decision process to determine long-term optimal decisions. We examine whether macro-process planning should be performed before or after order acceptance. We characterise the structure of optimal policies, and explore the dependence on a number of parameters such as project payoff, project cost and order arrival time. We also look into the effects of set-up costs and the use of non-regular capacity.

• 出版日期2018