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IIE Transactions articles from August 2009
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IIE Transactions archives from August 2009
Transshipment between competing retailers.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction
Stock-outs are endemic in the retail industry. In the supermarket industry alone, stock-outs lead to lost sales of $7-12 billion annually (Ton, 2002). "It's no small secret that retailers are still out of stock on 20% to...
Quantity commitment, production and subcontracting with bargaining.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction
The use of outsourcing to manufacture part of a product's volume or some components of a product that a firm makes has become very common in the last 20 years. In this paper we consider the case of (partial) subcontracting,...
Designing supply contracts in supplier vs buyer-driven channels: the impact of leadership, contract flexibility and information asymmetry.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction
In the context of supply contract design, the common wisdom is that the party holding the leadership realizes the greater profit. Traditionally, the supplier (e.g., manufacturer) has been more powerful, and. hence, the...
The multi-level lot sizing problem with flexible production sequences.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction
We consider a lot sizing problem with multiple items where the objective is to determine when and how much of each item should be produced over a finite planning horizon so as to minimize the sum of production, inventory...
Dual-supply inventory problem with capacity limits on order sizes and unrestricted ordering costs.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction
The impact of the financial collapse of UPF-Thompson on Land Rover (Macalister, 2002) and the effects of the Philips plant fire on Ericsson (Latour, 2001) are just two of several recent events that have shown the...
A maximum expected covering location model with two types of servers.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction
Responding to emergency cardiac arrest 911 calls is a major focus of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems. EMS systems are evaluated by how effectively they respond to and perform care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest...