Inventory control in a supply chain is crucial for companies desiring to satisfy their customers
demands as well as controlling costs. This paper examines specifically supply planning …

Purpose: Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) aims to deal with
variability byadjusting inventory levels while maintaining, or even increasing, customer …

Following our previous paper (Brahimi, Dauzère-Pérès, Najid, & Nordli, 2006), we present
an updated and extended survey of Single-Item Lot-Sizing Problems with focus on …

In the supply chain of fresh fruit and vegetables, large losses may incurred throughout the
whole farm to fork route. Food supply chain management is faced with challenges of …

In hierarchical production planning (HPP) systems, aggregate production planning (APP) is
meant to balance capacity requirements and production quantities for medium term planning …

Due to their complexity and extensive application in industry, rolling horizon planning
systems have received considerable attention in the literature. Of particular interest is the …

Non-deterministic lot-sizing models are considered which serve for an explicit determination
of lot sizes in an uncertain environment. Taxonomy components for such models are …

In this paper, we study production planning models for semiconductor wafer fabrication
facilities (wafer fabs) that consider both safety stocks at the finished goods inventory level …

In human history, global trade existed already in the ancient world, when people started to
trade natural resources, animals or products with other global regions. Early examples are …

This paper focuses on the use of material planning methods to control material flow to
inventories of purchased items. The first sub-objective is to evaluate the perceived planning …