Publisher Summary An assemble-to-order (or ATO) system includes several components
and several products. The time to acquire or produce a component is substantial. A product …

In literature, most papers examine several stochastic demand processes where order lead
times are constant. In reality, manufacturing firms use inventory management software …

This paper studies a decentralized supply chain consisting of a supplier and a retailer facing
price-and lead-time-sensitive demands. A Stackelberg game is constructed to analyze 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 …

We investigate firms' competitive behaviors in industries where customers are sensitive to
both promised delivery time (PDT) and quality of service (QoS) measured by the on-time …

Gathering the harvest represents a complex managerial problem for agricultural
cooperatives involved in harvesting and processing operations: balancing the risk of …

Purpose–How should a firm decide which of four choices–ie inventory speculation, inventory
postponement, inventory consignment, and reverse inventory consignment–is most …

We consider stock positioning in a pure assembly system controlled using installation base-
stock policies. When component suppliers have random capacity and end-product demand …

The disassembly activity, regarding as the crucial stage in recycling operations, has
attracted increasing focus owing to the significance of eco-economics and environmental …

This paper evaluates the benefit of a strategy of sharing shipment information, where one
stage in a supply chain shares shipment quantity information with its immediate downstream …