Manufacturers usually face customers with different service requirements. The challenge
they face is how to determine which customers to serve when the inventory supply is limited …

We study a single-product assemble-to-order (ATO) system with exogenous lead times
operated under a component base stock policy. Both demand and component lead times …

Inventory classification is a managerial method utilized to group items that share
predetermined characteristics, with the intent of assigning group-specific controls and …

Motivated by the remanufacturing systems at Daimler AG and other automobile, aerospace
and heavy machinery parts dealers/manufacturers, we develop a hybrid manufacturing …

We investigate the optimal policy of a capacitated assemble-to-order (ATO) system with
component commonality and backordered demands. Using a Markov decision process …

Assemble-to-order (ATO) systems are a manufacturing approach to reduce inventory while
increasing market responsiveness. Under ATO, firms assemble multiple types of products …

Community corrections (CC) programs offer an alternative to incarceration that can reduce
jail overcrowding and recidivism rates. The aim is to address the root causes behind criminal …

Abstract Assemble-to-order (ATO) strategies are common to many industries. Despite their
popularity, ATO systems remain challenging to analyze. We consider a general-product …

Deriving control policies for a make-to-order manufacturing system is often predicated on a
well-specified probabilistic model that governs demand realization. In practice, however …

We study joint inventory and fulfillment problems in network settings, which are ubiquitous in
production, retail, e-commerce, and omni-channel environments. These problems require …