Manufacturing can be complicated and expensive; that's why there needs to be a method to simplify the process. When looking to minimize production costs, many manufacturers turn to aggregate planning ...

Aggregate planning seeks to forecast mid-term (six to 18 months) demand and output capacity for a company. If your small business is a service company, you may not be used to thinking in terms of ...

Some people may look at an industry populated by more than 2,000 small, independent companies as a hopelessly fragmented market, with the players doomed to compete on price. But not Eugene Martineau.

PEABODY — City officials and neighbors of Aggregate Industries' quarry are trying to reconcile the company's recent proposal to expand with the obligation it has to tell the city how it will shut down ...