Abstract Tactical Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) has emerged as an extension of
the aggregate production planning, integrating mid-term decisions from procurement …

Despite the significant share of transportation costs in logistics costs and the importance of
considering transportation in inventory models, the majority of the existing models either …

This textbook provides a comprehensive modeling, reformulation and optimization approach
for solving production planning and related supply chain planning problems, covering topics …

Bioenergy has been recognized as an important source of energy that will reduce nation's
dependency on petroleum, and have a positive impact on the economy, environment, and …

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 …

Inventories are prevalent everywhere in the commercial world, whether it be in retail stores,
manufacturing facilities, government stockpile material, Federal Reserve banks, or even …

Group testing (ie, testing multiple subjects simultaneously with a single test) is essential for
classifying a large population of subjects as positive or negative for a binary characteristic …

The value of perishable products is most affected by the time delays in a supply chain. A
major issue is how to integrate the existing practices in production, inventory holding and …

This study presents mathematical models that capture the impact of different carbon-
emission-related policies on the design of the biodiesel supply chain. These mathematical …

Learning curve theory has been widely used as a managerial tool to describe and model
product and process improvement. This paper investigates a three-level supply chain …