This paper presents a comparison of sequential and integrated planning for the production
routing problem, in which production, inventory, and routing decisions must be made. The …

In a competitive environment, effective management of production and inventory decisions is
critical to maintain an efficient and balanced flow of the supply chain system. Manufacturing …

In the conventional Stackelberg game, all players are perfect optimizers, able to choose the
best responses to their competitors' decisions. In contrast, in the Stackelberg game with …

In reality, supply chain members need to determine the best suitable payment scheme when
transacting with their business partners. We investigate the optimization of payment …

In this article, we examine how an Operational Research (OR) modeling approach can help
in identifying how structural components in the supply process of a food product subject to a …

In-transit inventory financing is gaining popularity as an alternative way to access financing.
However, compared with other financing means such as trade credit and bank loans, the …

With the convergence of innovation, technology, and supply chain, the world has been
shrinking, and the retail industry is one of the largest spread across the globe in the past few …

In today's competitive market environment, providing different sorts of concessions are often
observed from the suppliers/manufacturers to their customers for escalating the number of …

Purpose This paper aims to uncover the significance of capacity, capacity utilization (CU)
and its role in the quality and productivity improvement in an industrial environment …

Under the combined effects of inventory-level-dependent demand (ILDD) and trade credit,
the retailer is able to order more quantities to stimulate market demand. However, from the …