New article on personnel planning

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Combining Operations Research and personnel scheduling: It can be done!

Although we mostly talk about Project Management and Scheduling in the OR-AS blog, we would like to draw your attention on the OR in OR-AS. Operations Research is a methodology that can be used everywhere, from supply chain management to warehousing, from project management to ... indeed ... personnel management.

Today, the journal Omega has announced the publication of our paper with the title "Reconstructing nurse schedules: Computational insights in the problem size parameters" by Broos Maenhout and Mario Vanhoucke in volume 41, issue 5, October 2013, pages 903–918.

Interesting stuff to read and easy to implement in your company. Let us know when you are interested in a study finetuned to your needs.

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