A shipping yard of an automotive assembly plant is one of the key business processes as well as a starting point of outbound logistics, which holds finished vehicles temporarily until their shipment. The shipping yard involves various dynamically changing events and operations associated with...

Disruptions and random supplies have been important sources of uncertainty that should be considered in the design and control of supply chains. There have been many real world examples in which a single catastrophic event has simultaneously degraded the capabilities of several suppliers leading...

Recently active radio-frequency identification (RFID) has drawn a lot of attention because of its capability to provide visibility of a dynamically moving object in a constantly changing operational environment by enabling instant identification and automatic information transfer. When a vehicle...

Disruptions and random supplies have been important sources of uncertainty that should be considered in the design and control of supply chains. There have been many real world examples in which a single catastrophic event has simultaneously degraded the capabilities of several suppliers leading...