Keyword: inventory

Found 1303 papers in total
An analysis of two-stage manufacturing systems with random processing times
1997,
This paper analyzes a system which consists of two workstations that are separated by...
Process reliability improvement and setup cost reduction in an imperfect production system
1997,
In studying an economic order quantity (EOQ)-like inventory model for a manufacturing...
Overplanning factor in Toyota's formula for computing the number of kanban
1997,
To determine the number of required kanban, Toyota uses a formula based on the average...
Production quotas as bounds on interplant JIT contracts
1997,
We consider the situation of a supplier plant whose customer plants desire...
Buffering from material recovery uncertainty in a recoverable manufacturing environment
1997,
Remanufacturing is becoming an increasingly important alternative to firms as they...
Coordinating production and inventory to improve service
1997,
Customer service has assumed strategic importance in most manufacturing environments....
Optimal stand level forest inventory intensities under deterministic and stochastic stumpage value assumptions
1994,
The basis for this study was that forest inventories, as well as other forestry...
Analysis of a synchronization station for the performance evaluation of a kanban system with a general arrival process of demands
1996,
The kanban system has attracted wide interest in recent years, and a lot of work has...
Information distortion in a supply chain: The bullwhip effect
1997,
Consider a series of companies in a supply chain, each of whom orders from its...
An application of yield management to the hotel industry considering multiple day stays
1995,
In this paper we study optimal strategies for renting hotel rooms when there is a...
A structured expert system for model management in inventory control
1994,
The focus of this paper is on the expert system design for inventory control model...
A comparison of linear regression and neural network methods for predicting excess returns on large stocks
1998,
Recent studies have shown that there is predictable variation in returns of financial...
Capacity planning under different inspection strategies
1996,
This paper addresses the issue of location of inspection stations along a serial...
Competing in product and service: A product life-cycle model
1997,
In this paper we develop a product life-cycle model that studies a set of strategic...
The effect of learning and forgetting on the economic manufactured quantity with the consideration of intracycle backorders
1997,
This paper extends the work of Karwan et al . for the finite production model by...
Techniques for optimization via simulation: An experimental study on an (s, S) inventory system
1997,
Various methods have been proposed to conduct optimization via discrete-event...
Period and phase of customer replenishment – A new approach to the strategic inventory/routing problem
1995,
The delivery of inventory to customers involves the use of vehicles for which purchase...
Simultaneous determination of the cutting speed and lot size values in machining systems
1995,
This paper presents an iterative procedure for the simultaneous determination of the...
Warehouse–retailer system with stochastic demands–non – identical retailer case
1995,
We consider a warehouse–retailer system where both the warehouse and the...
Supplier pricing and lot sizing when demand is price sensitive
1994,
The problem of co-ordination between a vendor and a buyer is formulated as a...
Control policies for multi-product multi-stage manufacturing systems: An experimental approach
1997,
We investigate the behaviour of a multi-product, multi-stage pull-type production...
In-plant material buffer sizes for pull system and level-material-shipping environments in the automotive industry
1997,
Traditionally automotive assembly plants operate with at least two weeks of frozen...
The general multi-retailer EOQ problem with vehicle routing costs
1994,
We study the distribution problem of a single commodity from one warehouse to n...
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