In the context of globalisation, the development of strategic planning becomes possible
mainly due to effective asset management, including by concentrating resources on core …

Purpose Maintenance represents an indispensable role in the productive sector of the steel
industry. The increasing use of operating with a high level of precision makes hydraulic …

Purpose Outsourcings always affect crucial supply chain functions concerning flexibility and
cost. During the decision to outsource and consider third-party logistics service provider …

Supplier selection in an outsourcing environment is a challenging task as it depends upon
various dimensions. To this effect, the study presents a hybrid approach in which in the first …

A well-established maintenance management system is key in improving the operational
performance within agricultural production systems. In this paper, we investigated the major …

Maintenance plays an indispensable role in the productive sector of an organization. The
increasing use of high-precision operations in the steel industry means that hydraulic …

This paper develops a generic model that helps in crucial decision making of pricing and
revenue-focused outsourcing for a stock-out problem of a deterministic, multi-echelon …

Purpose This study aims to provide a collaborative supply chain system using a combination
of two already existed methods, ie levels of decision-making and supply chain operation …

In capital-intensive industries, the management and optimization of the work in daily
maintenance and turnaround maintenance is a significant area requiring attention …

A Markov decision process (MDP) is an appropriate mathematical framework for analysis
and modeling a large class of sequential decision‐making problems. Real‐world …