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A multiple-shift workforce scheduling model under annualized hours
✍ Scribed by Rudy Hung
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 210 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-069X
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✦ Synopsis
Many manufacturing and service organizations in Europe have used annualized hours, also known as flexiyear, to successfully tackle seasonal demand. Under annualized hours, the employer has a certain number of labor hours available in a year and the employer can allocate the hours over the year according to manpower need. A problem in planning for annualized hours is the scheduling of the workforce over the year. We present an algorithm to generate an annual schedule for a scenario in which a facility operates one or more shifts and manpower need may vary from week to week.