Paul Anand

Anand Paul

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Found 13 papers in total
Inventory Planning for a Modular Product Family
2015
This paper is motivated by observing that an increasing number of firms are offering...
Inventory Pooling to Deliver Differentiated Service
2013
Inventory pooling is at the root of many celebrated ideas in operations management....
Dynamics of 2-worker bucket brigade assembly line with blocking and instantaneous walk-back
2009
We analyze the dynamics of 2-worker m -stations bucket brigade assembly lines where...
A note on closure properties of failure rate distributions
2005
Increasing generalized failure rate (IGFR) distributions were introduced as a tool in...
Requirements planning for modular products
2006
The focus of this paper is on determining the requirements of different component...
Simple probability models for project contracting
2005
There are two aspects to the process of price setting using sealed bids. The project...
Minimizing makespan on a single machine subject to random breakdowns
2006
We investigate optimal sequencing policies for the expected makespan problem with an...
On the unimodality of the manufacturer's objective function in the newsvendor model
2006
We derive new sufficient conditions for the manufacturer's profit function to be...
Average fill rate and horizon length
2005
Given a sequence of independent and identically distributed demands and an order up to...
Demand variability and incentives in inventory-based contracts
2004
We present some results on the impact of demand variability on stocking policies and...
Mean sample spacings, sample size and variability in an auction-theoretic framework
2004
In terms of a standard model for English auctions and sealed-bid auctions, we study...
A generalized model of operations reversal for fashion goods
2001
Operations reversal is a process design priciple that involves switching two...
Analysis of the effects of uncertainty, risk-pooling, and subcontracting mechanisms on project performance
2000
The problem of designing a contract mechanism to allocate the component subprojects of...
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