The post-pandemic world requires a renewed focus from service providers in ensuring that all customer segments receive the essential services (food, healthcare, housing, education, etc.) they need. Philanthropic service providers are unable to cope with the increased demands caused by the...

Problem Definition: MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) play a crucial role in the economic development of many developing countries (e.g., India), albeit facing a number of challenges that limit their growth and success. One crucial challenge is the lack of access to affordable...

Onion is an indispensable ingredient of the Indian diet, and plays a vital role in Indian economy, society, and politics. The ongoing volatility in its prices leads to significant social unrest. In this paper, we are interested in helping decision-makers to rigorously evaluate policy proposals...

With supply chains evolving into complex networks of diverse and independent economic entities, supply chain coordination has emerged as a key management capability for improving overall performance of the network. For long term sustainability, it is important that such networks remain stable...

Line extensions – variants of existing products with new appearances, functions, or forms – constitute a significant fraction of products launched each year. While line extensions typically share components with existing products and, therefore, require lower development costs (as compared...

For most multi-period decision-making problems, it is generally well-accepted that the influence of information about later periods on the optimal decision in the current period reduces as we move farther into the future. If and when this influence reduces to zero, the corresponding problem...

In this paper, we use integer programming (IP) to compute minimal forecast horizons for the classical dynamic lot-sizing problem (DLS). As a solution approach for computing forecast horizons, integer programming has been largely ignored by the research community. It is our belief that the...