IIE Transactions articles from November 2006

IIE Transactions archives from November 2006

Inventory competition and incentives to back-order.
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Recently one of the authors of this paper purchased a new Volkswagen Passat. Living in a small city, he was restricted to buying a car from one of two local Volkswagen dealers. Unfortunately, the first dealer he visited was...

Strategic outsourcing for competing OEMs that face cost reduction opportunities.(Original Equipment Manufacturers)
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction In many industries, competing Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) rely on similar or even interchangeable component technologies, even when their end products are not perfect substitutes. The telecommunications and...

Relaxing channel separation: integrating a virtual store into the supply chain via transshipments.
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Across industry, established companies have started to use virtual stores as a direct distribution channel in addition to their traditional indirect retail channels (Wilder, 1999). Initial concerns about the conflicts that...

Locating service facilities to reduce lost demand.
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction A primary objective in locating service facilities is to "capture" as much of the potential customer demand as possible. Most companies have a series of decision rules (based on population densities and demographics around...

A static empty equipment allocation model for long-haul networks with constrained crew routes.
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction The work schedules of long-haul drivers are difficult. According to a survey conducted by the Federal Highway Administration (Anon, 1997), 31% of interstate drivers spend more than 10 days on the road per trip, 7% of them...

On the integrated production, inventory, and distribution routing problem.
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Companies are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of improving their supply chains. The coordination and integration of the production (supply), inventory, and distribution (demand) operations is widely perceived...

Stochastic p-robust location problems.
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Optimization under uncertainty typically employs one of two approaches: (i) stochastic optimization; or (ii) robust optimization. In stochastic optimization, random parameters are governed by a probability distribution, and...

Scheduling and lot sizing with sequence-dependent setup: a literature review.
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Most practical scheduling problems involve setup times (costs). In general, setup includes work required to prepare a machine (or process) to produce parts of a given type, including setting jigs and fixtures, adjusting...

Periodic product distribution from multi-depots under limited supplies.
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Distribution costs are typically the largest single expense in many logistics systems, being greater than the warehousing, inventory maintenance, order processing, and administration costs. The control of distribution costs...

Dynamic lot sizing problem for a warm/cold process.
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Inventory replenishment processes, whether they consist of direct production or purchasing in a supply chain, typically involve setups. In a manufacturing setting, a setup is a set of operations to prepare for production...

A note on capacitated lot sizing with setup carry over.(Author abstract)
November 1, 2006... 1. Introduction Lot sizing is one of the central planning activities involved in production management. One of the basic lot sizing models, the "capacitated lot sizing problem", assumes that production is started for each item produced in...