This paper presents an analysis of the bullwhip effect and net-stock amplification in a three-echelon supply chain considering step-changes in the production rates during a product's life-cycle demand. The analysis is focused around highly complex and engineered products (e.g., automobiles),...

Since Daniel Steele’s 1975 seminal publication on schedule nervousness, academic researchers and corporate operations alike have deepened and expanded related research, both with direct intent to examine schedule nervousness (a.k.a. variation, volatility, or instability) or tangentially in...

In this paper, we propose two sets of theoretically filtered bound-factor constraints for constructing reformulation-linearization technique (RLT)-based linear programming (LP) relaxations for solving polynomial programming problems. We establish related theoretical results for convergence to a...