In this paper we analyze a situation in which several firms deal with inventory problems concerning the same type of product. We consider that each firm uses its limited capacity warehouse for storing purposes and that it faces an economic order quantity model where storage costs are irrelevant...

Supply chain management is related to the coordination of materials, products and information flows among suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers and customers involved in producing and delivering a final product or service. In this setting the centralization of inventory management...

Process improvement plays a significant role in reducing production costs over the life cycle of a product. We consider the role of process improvement in a decentralized assembly system in which a buyer purchases components from several first-tier suppliers. These components are assembled into...

In this paper we introduce and characterize some allocation rules for weighted bankruptcy problems. We illustrate the relevancy of weighted bankruptcy by applying it to analyse the museum pass problem, introduced by Ginsburgh and Zang (2003). This application is completed with the analysis of...