Operating in highly competitive global markets, management of the contemporary corporations constantly seeks to cut down various operating costs, such as inventory holding costs in the production units and their affiliated retailers. For the purpose of reducing stock holding cost, this paper...

This paper addresses the joint determination of a rotation cycle time and number of shipments for a multi-item economic production quantity (EPQ) model with random defective rate. The classic EPQ model considers production planning for a single product with a perfect production process and...

Globalization has not only generated immense business opportunities, but also created a very competitive marketplace. To retain competitive advantage, a manufacturer must satisfy a client's multiproduct and quality requirements with limited in-house capacity. An outsourcing strategy can overcome...

Globalization has not only generated immense business opportunities, but also created a very competitive marketplace. To retain competitive advantage, a manufacturer must satisfy a client's multiproduct and quality requirements with limited in-house capacity. An outsourcing strategy can overcome...

To reduce the order response time or achieve optimal utilization, manufacturers often include an outsourcing alternative in their production plans. Further, undesirable machine breakdowns and nonconforming items produced during the in-house processes must also be effectively managed/corrected to...

This paper is concerned with solving a vendor–buyer integrated inventory problem with rework and a specific multi-delivery policy by a two-phase algebraic approach. Conventional method to the problem is to use differential calculus and Hessian matrix equations to prove convexity of system cost...

In a recently published paper by Chiu et al. [Chiu, S.W., Wang, S.-L., Chiu, Y.-S.P., 2007. Determining the optimal run time for EPQ model with scrap, rework and stochastic breakdowns. European Journal of Operational Research 180, 664-676], a theorem on conditional convexity of the integrated...