Over the past two decades, Business Process Management (BPM) has been established as a new management philosophy and has already been widely implemented by organizations of any type or size. However, as of today, the existing literature on BPM is rather chaotic and lacking of consistent...

We consider a single-echelon inventory installation under the classical EOQ (with backorders) paradigm to study the effects of supply quality on cost performance. Previous research on imperfect supply quality has focused on variants of the proportional (deterministic or random) yield problem,...

Consideration is given to the operation of simple two-echelon divergent supply chains, where one central stock-point feeds several end stock-points. Periodic review echelon order-up-to policies are used to control the chain. Customer demand is imposed at end stock-points and, if unsatisfied, is...