This review addresses supply chain management issues specific to Internet fulfillment in a
multi-channel environment. It provides a systematic overview of managerial planning tasks …

In many applications involving make-to-order or time-sensitive (eg, perishable, seasonal)
products, finished orders are often delivered to customers immediately or shortly after the …

This book provides one of the first unified accounts of the dynamic aspects involved in the
strategic behavior in queues. The author presents the material in an easy style with mostly …

Over the past 20 years, the topic of order acceptance has attracted considerable attention
from those who study scheduling and those who practice it. In a firm that strives to align its …

Recent years have seen scores of retail and manufacturing companies exploring innovative
pricing strategies in an effort to improve their operations and ultimately the bottom line. Firms …

This study addresses the bi-objective flexible job shop problem (BOFJSP) with respect to
minimization of the maximum completion time (makespan) and total tardiness. This study …

This paper uses a genetic algorithm to solve the order-acceptance problem with tardiness
penalties. We compare the performance of a myopic heuristic and a genetic algorithm, both …

We study a firm which serves customers that are sensitive to quoted price and leadtime, with
pricing and leadtime decisions being made by the marketing and production departments …

This paper considers a profit-maximizing make-to-order manufacturer that offers multiple
products to a market of price and delay sensitive users, using a model that captures three …

In this paper, we study integrated order selection and scheduling decisions, where the
manufacturer has the flexibility to choose leadtimes. Our main goal is to provide a …