Journal: International Journal of Production Economics

Found 2380 papers in total
A model for selecting the appropriate level of aggregation in forecasting processes
2007,
Demand forecasting is a major issue in several industrial sectors. A relevant choice...
Order and inventory variance amplification: The equivalence of discrete and continuous time analyses
2007,
The well-known ‘Bullwhip Effect’ concerns the increasing variance of...
Analysis of postponement strategy for perishable items by EOQ-based models
2007,
This paper develops economic-order-quantity (EOQ)-based models with perishable items...
A new location–inventory policy with reverse logistics applied to B2C e-markets of China
2007,
Based on the characteristics of consumer purchasing behavior over business-to-consumer...
The accuracy of a Modified Croston procedure
2007,
A modified Croston procedure to forecast intermittent demand is reviewed. The modified...
Cyclical schedules vs. dynamic sequencing: Replenishment dynamics and inventory efficiency
2007,
This paper addresses the efficiency of fixed sequence (cyclical) scheduling systems,...
Greening the aluminium supply chain
2007,
This paper originated from an industrial case study in the field of the aluminium...
An optimal, potentially automatable ordering policy
2007,
Ramps in demand occur frequently in practice causing supply chain problems. We exactly...
Firm and time varying technical and allocative efficiency: An application to port cargo handling firms
2007,
In this paper we present an econometric model to calculate both, the technical and the...
Issues in managing disaster relief inventories
2007,
This essay is concerned with the inventories that are held for disaster relief and the...
Selection of optimum maintenance strategies based on a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process
2007,
This paper aims to evaluate different maintenance strategies (such as corrective...
Effect of inspection errors and preventive maintenance on a two-stage production inventory system
2007,
The effect of imperfect production processes on lot-sizing decisions has received a...
Availability of k-out-of-N systems under block replacement sharing limited spares and repair capacity
2007,
In this paper we consider an installed base of k-out-of-N systems, each consisting of...
Optimal safety stocks and preventive maintenance periods in unreliable manufacturing systems
2007,
We consider a manufacturing system with preventive maintenance that produces a single...
Optimal production, maintenance and lockout/tagout control policies in manufacturing systems
2007,
We consider a production control problem for a manufacturing system subject to random...
Warehouse operator selection by combining AHP and DEA methodologies
2007,
In this paper we propose an approach for selecting the warehouse operator network by...
A study on the cost of operational complexity in customer–supplier systems
2007,
This paper reports on the application of the operational complexity index. The aim is...
A holistic framework for short-term supply chain management integrating production and corporate financial planning
2007,
Traditional approaches for SCM usually focus on process operations and neglect the...
Coordination on stocking and progressive pricing policies for a supply chain
2007,
Results of a study of the coordination effect in stocking and progressive pricing...
Using risk-management tools on B2Bs: An exploratory investigation
2007,
Business-to-Business exchanges (B2Bs) have given procurement managers of certain...
Coordinating ordering/shipment policy for buyer and supplier: Numerical and empirical analysis of influencing factors
2007,
The deficiencies in previous quantitative models for buyer–supplier coordination...
Buyer–vendor inventory coordination with credit period incentives
2007,
In this paper, a single-vendor, a single-buyer supply chain for a single product is...
Performance improvement of supply chain processes by coordinated inventory and capacity management
2007,
This study discusses the opportunities and challenges for improving the performance of...
An approach to inter-domain master planning in supply chains
2007,
The major task of supply chain master planning (SCMP) is the determination of...
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