Planning annualised hours with a finite set of weekly working hours and cross-trained workers.

Annualising working hours (i.e., the possibility of irregularly distributing the total number of working hours over a year) permits companies to adapt capacity to fluctuations in demand, thus reducing overtime, temporary workers and inventory costs. Since annual hours can lead to a worsening of the...

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Autores: Corominas Subias, Albert|||0000-0002-4795-7761, Lusa García, Amaia|||0000-0002-1408-6496, Pastor Moreno, Rafael|||0000-0002-6188-4458
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/6079
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/6079
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Manpower planning
Human resources
Annualised hours
Integer programming
Programación entera
Programació entera
Recursos humanos
Recursos humans
Planificación de la mano de obra
Planificació de la mà d'obra
Horas de trabajo anual
Hores de treball anual
Recursos humans -- Planificació
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Direcció d'operacions
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Resumo:Annualising working hours (i.e., the possibility of irregularly distributing the total number of working hours over a year) permits companies to adapt capacity to fluctuations in demand, thus reducing overtime, temporary workers and inventory costs. Since annual hours can lead to a worsening of the staff’s working conditions, many laws and collective bargaining agreements contain constraints that affect the distribution of working time. This paper proposes a MILP model to solve an annualised working hours planning problem in which workers are considered to be cross-trained, and in which the number of weekly working hours must belong to a previously agreed finite set. A computational experiment demonstrates the effectiveness of the model.