Encouraging interest in inventory management necessitates that instructors overcome concerns that the subject is too abstract or conceptual. To aid in this process, we describe a competition engaging students in concepts, including demand estimation, demand uncertainty, and costs of inventory...

In this article, we investigate the (R, S) periodic review, order-up-to level inventory control system with stochastic demand and variable leadtimes. Variable leadtimes can lead to order crossover, in which some orders arrive out of sequence. Most theoretical studies of order-up-to inventory...

Some Modelling Theoretic Remarks on Multi-Stage Production Planning -- Inventory — Production and Distribution Systems -- Two-Stage Production Planning in a Dynamic Environment -- Overview of a Stock Allocation Model for a Two-Echelon Push System Having Identical Units at the Lower Echelon --...

Remanufacturing is a common production mode for firms taking part in sustainable operations and the circular economy because it can improve environmental performance, especially via third-party remanufacturing. This paper studies third-party remanufacturing by developing game models for a...

Aligning staff with changing customer and store needs is key to store operations management. There is considerable research on personnel scheduling, but little on the common phenomenon of Real-Time Labour Allocation (RTLA), where mismatches between workforce supply and demand are addressed by...