IIE Transactions articles from July 2006

IIE Transactions archives from July 2006

Coordination of quantity and shelf-retention timing in the video movie rental industry.
July 1, 2006... 1. Introduction The video rental industry has recently been the subject of intense interest from the operations management community (Drezner and Pasternack, 1999; Dana and Spier, 2001; Pasternack, 2001; Lariviere and Cachon, 2002). This...

Facility location under uncertainty: a review.
July 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Facility location decisions are costly and difficult to reverse, and their impact spans a long time horizon. During the time when design decisions are in effect, any of the parameters of the problem (costs, demands,...

Multi-resource routing with flexible tasks: an application in drayage operations.
July 1, 2006... 1. Introduction This paper studies routing and scheduling for intermodal (rail/truck/maritime) drayage operations. Drayage refers to the regional movement of loaded and empty equipment (trailers and containers) by tractors between rail...

Optimal implementation and benefits of rolling inventory.
July 1, 2006... 1. Introduction The concept of rolling inventory was introduced to us by a team from Kimberly-Clark and Schneider Logistics as a warehouse management strategy aimed at saving handling costs and storage space. Under this strategy, incoming...

Replenishment planning in discrete-time, capacitated, non-stationary, stochastic inventory systems.
July 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Over the last two decades, Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP-II) systems have been adopted by many firms with varied degrees of success. With the advent of Enterprise Resource...

Determining sequence and ready times in a remanufacturing system.
July 1, 2006... 1. Introduction The current emphasis on sustainable growth, which advocates present economic growth without diminishing future resources, has driven the increased reuse of manufactured products. Emerging forms of product reuse (listed in...

A logistics scheduling model: scheduling and transshipment for two processing centers.
July 1, 2006... 1. Introduction In recent years the logistics scheduling problem has gained increasing importance with the development of supply chain management. In contrast to traditional machine scheduling models in which the main concern is to...