The chemical-pharmaceutical sector is facing an unprecedented fast-changing environment,
with new market and technological trends impacting the companies' operational strategies …

We examine whether investor mood, driven by World Health Organization (WHO) alerts and
media news on dangerous infectious diseases, is priced in pharmaceutical companies' …

This paper considers the problem of integrated production, preventive maintenance and
quality control for a stochastic production system subject to both reliability and quality …

This paper provides a risk assessment framework to select shipping lanes for
pharmaceutical products. The main categories of risks are determined through an algorithm …

Stochastic effects exist in a great number of manufacturing system operation problems.
Simulation optimization methods are widely used for tackling the stochasticity. In order to …

An important strategy used by two-location firms is lateral transshipment which allows
sharing the inventory between the locations to reduce the impact of shortages …

We study an unreliable deteriorating manufacturing system that produces conforming and
non-conforming parts to satisfy a constant demand product rate. The manufacturing system …

This paper investigates the case of a manufacturing system subject to several progressive
deterioration processes through an integrated model that seeks to determine the …

This article addresses the problem of joint optimisation of production, setup and
maintenance activities of unreliable manufacturing system producing two products. Given …

This paper falls within the emerging business of remanufacturing by considering a hybrid
system that uses both raw materials and returned products in the production process. Such a …