Benton W.C.

W.C. Benton

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Found 27 papers in total
Quantity discount-based inventory coordination: effectiveness and critical environmental factors
Quantity discount-based inventory coordination: effectiveness and critical environmental factors
2001
It is understood that quantity discounts provide a practical foundation for...
Hospital capacity management decisions: Emphasis on cost control and quality enhancement
Hospital capacity management decisions: Emphasis on cost control and quality enhancement
2003
This paper empirically examines the effects of several key hospital demographic...
A generalized framework for quantity discount pricing schedules
A generalized framework for quantity discount pricing schedules
2003
The use of price to influence a buyer's purchasing behavior and thus improve supply...
Supply-chain management for recoverable manufacturing systems
Supply-chain management for recoverable manufacturing systems
2000
Recoverable manufacturing systems minimize the environmental impact of industry by...
Purchase quantity discounts and open order rescheduling in an assemble-to-order environment: The hidden economic tradeoffs
Purchase quantity discounts and open order rescheduling in an assemble-to-order environment: The hidden economic tradeoffs
1998
In manufacturing systems, raw materials and components are purchased from outside...
Manufacturing planning and control: The evolution of MRP and JIT integration
Manufacturing planning and control: The evolution of MRP and JIT integration
1998
Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Just-in-Time (JIT) system are directed toward...
Supply chain partnerships: Opportunities for operations research
Supply chain partnerships: Opportunities for operations research
1997
A maturing stream of recent conceptual literature has focused upon supply chain...
A joint optimization of product variety and ordering approach
A joint optimization of product variety and ordering approach
1998
It has been generally recognised that the product variety or product line decision is...
Performance measurement criteria in health care organizations: Review and future research directions
Performance measurement criteria in health care organizations: Review and future research directions
1996
As pressures from government, insurance companies, communities, and individual...
A classification of literature on determining the lot size under quantity discounts
A classification of literature on determining the lot size under quantity discounts
1996
Determining a lot size in the presence of either all-units or incremental discounts...
A decision model for shift scheduling of nurses
A decision model for shift scheduling of nurses
1994
The day-to-day scheduling of nursing staff in an acute care hospital causes many...
A model for scheduling postal distribution employees
A model for scheduling postal distribution employees
1992
This paper describes the design and analysis of a generalizable linear programming...
Workforce staffing and scheduling: Hospital nursing specific models
Workforce staffing and scheduling: Hospital nursing specific models
1992
Decisions relating to hospital nurse staffing and scheduling are among the most...
Lot size dependent lead times in a (Q,R) inventory system
Lot size dependent lead times in a (Q,R) inventory system
1995
In a continuous-review or re-order level inventory control ( Q,R) system, the safety...
Sole sourcing versus dual sourcing under stochastic demands and lead times
Sole sourcing versus dual sourcing under stochastic demands and lead times
1994
The use of a single vendor for each inventoried item is usually assumed in most of the...
Strategies for service systems
Strategies for service systems
1992
The service sector has increased enormously in its importance to the world economy...
Product structure complexity and inventory storage capacity on the performance of a multi-level manufacturing system
Product structure complexity and inventory storage capacity on the performance of a multi-level manufacturing system
1993
In today’s competitive environment firms are placing greater emphasis on...
Time- and cost-based priorities for job shop scheduling
Time- and cost-based priorities for job shop scheduling
1993
Competitively, cost- and time-based scheduling should provide a firm with a powerful...
Jointly constrained order quantities with all-units discounts
Jointly constrained order quantities with all-units discounts
1993
In this article the authors investigate situations where the buyer is offered...
Vendor selection criteria and methods
Vendor selection criteria and methods
1991
The vendor selection process has undergone significant changes during the past twenty...
Modelling intra-city time-dependent travel speeds for vehicle scheduling problems
Modelling intra-city time-dependent travel speeds for vehicle scheduling problems
1992
Many research papers have presented mathematical models for vehicle scheduling....
The vehicle scheduling problem with intermittent customer demands
The vehicle scheduling problem with intermittent customer demands
1992
The vehicle scheduling problem (VSP) is a problem of interest to many researchers and...
Safety stock and service levels in periodic review inventory systems
Safety stock and service levels in periodic review inventory systems
1991
The management requirement (purchased parts and components) uncertainty in MRP systems...
Statistical process control and the Taguchi method: A comparative evaluation
Statistical process control and the Taguchi method: A comparative evaluation
1991
Most manufacturing processes do not produce completely identical characteristics for...
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