IIE Transactions articles from March 2006

IIE Transactions archives from March 2006

The value of sharing lead time information.(Enterprise Resource Planning)
March 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Advances in information technology have greatly reduced the costs for a firm to share lead time information with customers. For example, it is now possible for a sales representative to instantly check the availability of a...

The multilocation transshipment problem.
March 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Physical pooling of inventories (Eppen, 1979) has been widely used in practice to reduce costs and improve customer service. For example, Xerox has consolidated all of its country-based warehouses in Europe into a single...

A heuristic for multi-item production with seasonal demand.
March 1, 2006... 1. Introduction In many manufacturing environments, limited capacity and strong seasonal demand force businesses to produce and store significant quantities of anticipation stock. As a case in point, one wrapping-paper manufacturer...

Location of congested capacitated facilities with distance-sensitive demand.
March 1, 2006... 1. Introduction The problem of locating service facilities taking into account demands that are distance dependent is not new. In spatial interaction models, originating with the work of Huff (1964), customers split their demand between...

A precedence-constrained asymmetric traveling salesman model for disassembly optimization.
March 1, 2006... 1. Background and motivation The advances in technology achieved in the last century have resulted in unprecedented developments in every field of human endeavor. However, adverse impacts on the environment seem to be an inevitable...

Component commonality in assembled-to-stock systems.
March 1, 2006... 1. Introduction In a typical assembly process, it is not uncommon for several products to share the same type of component. The components ordered by a manufacturer from its suppliers involve delivery times whose duration depends on many...

Considering asymmetrical manufacturing cost information in a two-echelon system that uses price-only contracts.
March 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Many two-echelon supply chain models are related to the following basic "price-only" interaction: the "players" are a manufacturer and a retailer. The manufacturer sets the unit wholesale price ($w/unit) of a product she...