Supply chain management (SCM) has become an important management paradigm. As
supply chain members are often separate and independent economic entities, a key issue in …

The rapidly developing worldwide marketplace is leading to the geographical dispersion of
production, assembly and distribution operations. This paper deals with three aspects of …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews optimization-based methods for solving low sizing
problems for a range of serial, assembly, distribution, and other more general system …

Batching decisions are one of management's instruments to impact performance of goods-
flow systems. There is a vast body of literature on analysis and modeling of batching. This …

During the past decade, two relatively new application areas have attracted the attention of a
growing number of researchers who specialize in applying optimization techniques to large …

In this paper we consider periodic review systems under stochastic demands. First, we study
the single product periodic review problem and propose a simple solution procedure which …

Using the net present value is the standard methodology in theoretical analysis, and the
most frequently used method for making financial decisions. However, net present value is …

We study an integrated production and distribution scheduling model in a two-stage supply
chain consisting of one or more suppliers, a warehouse, and a customer. Each supplier …

An integrated production/delivery quantity model in a make-to-order producer–buyer supply
chain is analyzed in this paper. The coordinated policy is achieved by scheduling single …

For deterministic series inventory systems with backlogging, we show that the continuous
relaxation of the best integer frequency policies is a lower bound on all feasible policies. The …