Global competition among businesses imposes a more effective and low-cost supply chain
allowing firms to provide products at a desired quality, quantity, and time, with lower …

For building material distributors, order planning is a key process as a result of the increase
in construction projects' scale and complexity. In this paper, the integration of simulation …

This paper explores the impact of retail store backrooms on inventory record inaccuracies
(IRI) and waste. A trend in the retail industry is operating in the absence of a backroom …

Hospital pharmacy managers make inventory decisions for thousands of different perishable
drugs. Commonly, these managers do not have the resources to implement advanced …

This paper deals with an integrated and interconnected stochastic queuing-inventory system
with a fresh item, a returned item, and a refurbished item. This system provides a multi-type …

In this highly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment, a fuzzy
inventory optimization problem is a hot topic that received the most attention from both …

In this paper, a periodic order‐up‐to‐level policy is developed by using a Markovian
approach. Customer demand is modeled by using an empirical distribution. Unmet customer …

This study develops a mixed-integer linear programming model based on a guaranteed
service approach for an inventory positioning problem in a supply chain under the base …

In times of globalisation and competitive markets, it is crucial for organisations to focus their
activities on processes planned to promote efficiency. Material requirements planning …

This research aims to construct inventory framework for several demand and deterioration
situations, conduct a search of the literature and become familiar with documentation and …