Two critical decisions must be made daily when managing multiechelon repair and distribution systems for service parts: (1) allocating available repair capacity among different items and (2) allocating available inventories to field stocking locations to support service operations. In many such...

Time-based item fill rates, or "channel" fill rates, are the building blocks needed to evaluate steady-state compliance with time-based customer service agreements. Exact computation of channel fill rates is both difficult and time-consuming, yet their accurate assessment is essential for...

In the process industries, specialized equipment and production processes often necessitate the manufacture of products in a pre-determined sequence to minimize changeover time and to simplify scheduling complexity; these types of schedules are referred to as pure rotation schedules, or product...