This paper reviews the literature on inventory models with multiple sourcing options and
presents a typology for classification. By means of the classification, the progression of the …

Uncertainties of supply and demand are two major sources of risk in any supply chain. As a
result, the companies are implementing different strategies to mitigate the effects of these …

It is common for a firm to make use of multiple suppliers of different delivery lead times,
reliabilities, and costs. In this study, we are concerned with the joint pricing and inventory …

Motivated by a problem commonly faced by time-sensitive product manufacturers, an
analytical model to study the joint decisions of subcontracting and detailed job scheduling is …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate an underexplored aspect of outsourcing
involving a mixed strategy in which parallel production is continued in-house at the same …

In this paper we study the production scheduling problem for a two-stage flow shop in which
there are options of outsourcing some operations to subcontractors. The basic objective is to …

This paper considers a single-machine scheduling problem with outsourcing allowed, where
each job can be either processed on an in-house single-machine or outsourced …

In this paper, we address a new scheduling model for a firm with an option of outsourcing. A
job can be processed by either in-house production or outsourcing. All outsourced jobs have …

This paper considers a two-stage production scheduling problem in which each activity
requires two operations to be processed in stages 1 and 2, respectively. There are two …

Ports-of-entry are critical components of the modern international supply chain infrastructure,
particularly container seaports and airfreight hubs. The potential operational and economic …