| For the case of a personnel planning situation for a very large car manufacturer, this paper investigates the interaction between management decisions and scheduling. In particular, we consider the manufacturing of car bodies or pieces of them within a press machine shop and propose an efficient procedure to overcome deficiencies in manpower planning and in-time production. The presented model allows to minimize the maximum number of workers required per time unit. We propose an optimal as well as a heuristic algorithm based upon a branch-and-bound procedure. |
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