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The paper presents the long-term planning approach which has been studied to support small-medium enterprise networks of competing nodes in evaluating their capability to meet the foreseen customer demand. The network as a whole uses long-term planning to identify possible resource lacks in some productive phases and to plan critical materials purchase. The participating nodes use long-term planning to decide the most convenient amount of productive capacity they make available to the network. The planning functions keep demand uncertainty in due consideration and adopt a proper family-based network process model.
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Bonfatti, F., Monari, P.D., Montanari, R., Morini, A. (1997). A Long-term Planning Approach for Small-medium Enterprise Networks. In: Plonka, F., Olling, G. (eds) Computer Applications in Production and Engineering. CAPE 1997. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35291-6_8
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