In warranty inventory management, customers return allegedly malfunctioning products for replacement. Useful products may be recovered through testing and/or remanufacturing processes. The company must decide on the number of new units to purchase from a production line each period. This...

This paper addresses the concept of quality risk in outsourcing. Recent trends in outsourcing extend a contract manufacturer's (CM's) responsibility to several functional areas such as research and development and design in addition to manufacturing. This trend enables an original equipment...

Predictive algorithms have an increasingly important role in supporting the day-to-day operations of healthcare organizations. Yet, fully realizing the value of algorithms lies critically in the opportunity to re-engineer the related processes and redefine roles in ways that make organizations...

This case discusses a semiconductor firm's challenge of planning production and allocation of resources across different product lines. The case is amenable for illustrating how linear programming could be useful for planning and how to determine key factors/costs/tradeoffs driving production...