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Found 17295 papers in total
Optimizing verification, validation and testing strategies: a decomposition approach
2006,
Verification, validation and testing (VVT) of large systems is an important but...
Pooling lead-time risk by order splitting: A critical review
2006,
After more than 20 years of extensive study, the policy of pooling lead-time risk by...
Opportunistic supply chain formation from qualified partners for a new market demand
2006,
This paper addresses the problem of short-term supply chain design using the idle...
Competing on capabilities – an analysis of supply chain flexibility in Australian manufacturing industry
2007,
In Australia, there has been an increasing need to improve the company's...
Comparison of supply chain replenishment strategies in a non-capacitated distribution system
2007,
This research considers inventory replenishment in a stochastic, non-capacitated,...
Logistics strategic planning: current status and future prospects in Greek companies
2007,
This paper's aim is to investigate logistics strategic planning in Greek companies....
Managing uncertainty in logistics service supply chain
2007,
Many third party logistics (3PL) providers in South China are small and medium-sized...
The implications of information sharing on bullwhip effects in a toy supply chain
2007,
This paper compares actual bullwhip effects provided by retailers who shared...
Optimisation of supply chain logistics network using random search techniques
2007,
Fierce market competition is making companies move from their traditional business...
Exploring forecasting and project management characteristics of supply chain management
2007,
Effective forecasting with the framework of Supply Chain Management (SCM) requires...
Logistics outsourcing: an examination of third-party providers
2007,
The outsourcing of logistical functions to third-party providers has become an...
Strategic implementation of information technology to improve retail supply chain in India
2007,
Overall retail business efficiency in India is 2%, even though India is...
The theory and practice of Reverse Logistics
2007,
This paper provides a review of the literature on Reverse Logistics. It provides an...
VEPCE: decision-making model for vendor evaluation with respect to product prioritisation and customer expectation
2007,
Vendor performance analysis is a significant area of research in supply chain...
A resource-based theory of supplier strategy
2007,
This article explores resource-based strategies for suppliers of manufactured...
Leader–follower game in vendor-managed inventory system with limited production capacity considering wholesale and retail prices
2006,
Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) is a widely used co-operative inventory policy in...
Multiple population search strategy for routing selection and sequence optimization of a supply chain
2007,
The current paper outlines a framework of a distributed hierarchical model for supply...
Cross-facility management of production and transportation planning problem
2006,
This paper studies an integrated production and transportation planning problem in a...
Applying frequent itemset mining to identify a small itemset that satisfies a large percentage of orders in a warehouse
2006,
In a warehouse, if we can identify a small subset of items that can satisfy a large...
A new algorithm for minimizing makespan, Cmax, in blocking flow-shop problem through slowing down the operations
2007,
In this paper, a new algorithm with complexity O( nm 2 ) is presented, which finds the...
On-line scheduling with forbidden zones
2007,
In various manufacturing and computing contexts there may be a certain period in each...
Minimizing maximum lateness in a flow shop subject to release dates
2007,
We consider the problem of minimizing the maximum lateness in an m -machine flow shop...
Crane scheduling with non-crossing constraint
2006,
In this paper, we examine crane scheduling for ports. This important component of port...
A local search method for permutation flow shop scheduling
2006,
It is well known that a local search method, a widely used approach for solving the...
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