Consider an N stage serial production line where the processing times of orders may be random. Since the carrying costs increase from stage to stage, the standard production procedure, that is, to determine a total leadtime for the entire order by taking an appropriate percentile of the...

Retail store managers may not follow order advices generated by an automated inventory replenishment system if their incentives differ from the cost-minimization objective of the system or if they perceive the system to be suboptimal. We study the ordering behavior of retail store managers in a...

This paper deals with a one-product production/inventory model, where the production rate can be dynamically adjusted in order to cope with random fluctuations in demand. The inventory level is controlled by using one of two possible production rates where under each production rate the...

The purpose of this paper is to describe TABUROUTE, a new tabu search heuristic for the vehicle routing problem with capacity and route length restrictions. The algorithm considers a sequence of adjacent solutions obtained by repeatedly removing a vertex from its current route and reinserting it...