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Found 17049 papers in total
Time-based competition in multistage manufacturing stream-of-variation analysis methodology – review
2004,
Frequency of model change and the vast amounts of time and cost required to make a...
Availability analysis for multitask production systems
2004,
A multitask production system is one in which different subsets of the components can...
Real-time revision of order quantities with capacity constraint: a single period model
2004,
Manufacturing firms would like to maximize customer satisfaction by providing them...
An analytical investigation of the Bullwhip Effect
2004,
The Bullwhip Effect is problematic: order variability increases as orders propagate...
Planning and scheduling in supply chains: An overview of issues in practice
2001,
This paper gives an overview of the theory and practice of planning and scheduling in...
Quantity discount-based inventory coordination: effectiveness and critical environmental factors
2001,
It is understood that quantity discounts provide a practical foundation for...
Contracting in a supply chain with stochastic demand and substitute products
2001,
Retailers often stock competing products from multiple manufacturers. When the...
Coordinating sales and raw material discounts in a global supply chain
2001,
In this paper, the supplier of a key component to a global manufacturer offers a...
Revenue-sharing vs wholesale-price contracts in assembly systems with random demand
2001,
Assembly and kitting operations, as well as jointly sold products, are rather basic...
Supply chain coordination in a market with customer service competition
2001,
We consider a market with two competing supply chains, each consisting of one...
Duals for classical inventory models via generalized geometric programming
2004,
Inventory problems generally have a structure that can be exploited for computational...
Channel conflict and coordination in the e-commerce age
2001,
A number of factors including developments in Internet-based commerce and third-party...
Linear programs with an additional separable concave constraint
2004,
In this paper, we develop two algorithms for globally optimizing a special class of...
Steady state analysis of an M/D/2 queue with Bernoulli schedule server vacations
2003,
We examine an M/D/2 queue with Bernoulli schedules and a single vacation policy. We...
On solvability of functional equations and system of functional equations arising in dynamic programming
2004,
The purpose of this paper is to study solvability of two classes of functional...
Simulation of winter wheat yield and water use efficiency in the Loess Plateau of China using WAVES
2003,
Water availability is a major factor that limits grain yield in the Loess Plateau of...
Irrigation deficits and farmers' vulnerability in Southern India
2003,
Land ownership does not prevent vulnerability in less developed countries' agriculture...
Achieving efficiency and equity in irrigation management: an optimization model of the El Angel watershed, Carchi, Ecuador
2003,
The objective of this paper is to address the problems of inefficiency and inequity in...
Sustainability analysis for irrigation water management in the Aral Sea region
2003,
Sustainable irrigation water management should simultaneously achieve two objectives:...
Optimising irrigation management for a spatially variable soybean field
2003,
During the last few years, water has become a limited resource in the southeastern...
DAM EA$ y – software for assessing the costs and benefits of on-farm water storage based production systems
2003,
Increasing demands for water from all sectors of the Australian economy mean that...
A complexity-based risk assessment of low-cost planetary missions: when is a mission too fast and too cheap?
2003,
Under constrained budgets and rigid schedules, NASA and industry have greatly...
Trends in cost-effective mission operations
2003,
The pressure on achieving cost reductions in Mission Operations has been increasing...
Predicting mission success in small satellite missions
2003,
In our global society with its increasing international competition and tighter...
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