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IIE Transactions articles from February 2007
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IIE Transactions archives from February 2007
Rebate, returns and price protection policies in channel coordination.
February 1, 2007... 1. Introduction
Due to the rapid rate of technological innovation and changes in consumer taste, many products, such as personal computers, electronic components and automobiles, not only have increasingly shorter product life cycles but...
Hierarchical cross-training in work-in-process-constrained systems.(Author abstract)
February 1, 2007... 1. Introduction
The competition faced by manufacturing and service firms has become broader and more intense over the last two decades. Increasingly sophisticated customers demand a broad range of high-quality products that are quickly...
Risk, risk aversion and the optimal time to produce.(Author abstract)
February 1, 2007... 1. Introduction
Capital goods such as production equipment, medical devices or defense systems share the following features in common. First, these products are expensive and customized items, therefore, it is risky to hold subsystems or...
Benefits of considering inventory in service parts logistics network design problems with time-based service constraints.(Author abstract)
February 1, 2007... 1. Introduction
Increasing worldwide competition and shrinking profit margins are forcing high-technology-product manufacturers to find new ways to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Providing a fast, high-quality after-sales...
Strategic network design for multi-zone truckload shipments.(Author abstract)
February 1, 2007... 1. Introduction
The trucking industry accounts for 75% of the total freight expenditure in the US (Chopra and Meindl, 2002), and it consists primarily of two types of shipping: full TruckLoad (TL) and Less-than-TruckLoad (LTL). While the...
A Lagrangean heuristic for integrated production and transportation planning problems in a dynamic, multi-item, two-layer supply chain.(Author abstract)
February 1, 2007... 1. Introduction
Increasingly more demanding consumers and increased competition have resulted in individual companies becoming part of large and complex supply chains. Managing the production, inventory and transportation of commodities in...
Coordinating production and distribution of jobs with bundling operations.(Author abstract)
February 1, 2007... 1. Introduction
Both production planning and distribution management are critical to the success of a manufacturer. Traditional management approaches consider these two functions separately and sequentially. For example, when the...
A (10/7)-approximation algorithm for an optimum cyclic solution in additive travel-time robotic cells.(Author abstract)
February 1, 2007... 1. Introduction
Robotic cells are used in many modern manufacturing systems. As they become more prevalent, using these cells efficiently becomes a competitive necessity. Previous studies of robotic cells have addressed three major...
An improved version of the NEH algorithm and its application to large-scale flow-shop scheduling problems.
February 1, 2007... 1. Introduction
The Flow-shop Scheduling Problem (FSP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem that is extensively encountered in industry. It is relatively simple to formulate and is strongly NP-hard. The complexity of the...