IPTV, acronym of Internet Protocol Television, is a system that delivers television services through Internet protocol networks. Therefore, an IPTV system consists of many subsystems including content management, user management, and broadcast management systems. Among the main subsystems, the distribution management system handles purchasing orders from distributors, transcoding original conte...

The deposition of droplets size [5–22] ?m on the surface particles in a gas–solid fluidized bed has been investigated employing one-way coupled CFD-DEM modeling. In this approach gas phase is solved as continuum and free-droplets are Lagrangian objects, while solid assumed to be stationary act an obstacle for fluid flow. way, it was possible calculate factor, defined ratio deposited number inje...

This paper considers the Dynamic Multi-Period Vehicle Routing Problem which deals with the distribution of orders from a depot to a set of customers over a multi-period time horizon. Customer orders and their feasible service periods are dynamically revealed over time. The objectives are to minimize total travel costs and customer waiting, and to balance the daily workload over the planning hor...

This paper examines a change in business practices in the pharmaceutical manufacturer-to-distributor supply chain, a change that essentially forced pharmaceutical distributors to maintain lower inventories. This change also provided pharmaceutical manufacturers with information about distributor customer demand and inventories that had previously been withheld from them. Supply chain theory and...

We consider a liquid type of a deteriorating item which is packaged by an outside supplier and is delivered to final customers by a distributor. Customers arrive according to a Poisson process and ask for an integer number of packages. Unsatisfied demands are backordered. The inventory is reviewed continuously and replenished from an external supplier with a positive deterministic lead time fol...

In their recent paper, Leng and Parlar (L&P) (2009) analyze information-sharing alliances in a three-level supply chain (consisting of a manufacturer, a distributor, and a retailer) that faces a nonstationary end demand. Supply chain members can share demand information, which reduces information distortion and thus decreases their inventory holding and shortage costs. We expand the results fro...

Many benefits of implementation of GDSN have been identified, including reduced counterfeiting, reduced medication errors, increased supply chain efficiency and standardized regulatory evolution. Several steps are involved in developing a GDSN and EPCglobal network. Each manufacturer, distributor, and retailer must have a strong ERP information system for the initial EPCIS set up. Next, a 2D ba...

the effect of steel plate thickness on the repair effectiveness of rc beam is presented in this paper. a total of four beams were tested, one beam repaired by cfrp with a thickness of 1.2 mm and used as a control beam, and three beams repaired by a steel plate. steel plates with a thickness of 2 mm, 3 mm, and 4 mm were used in repairing the beams. the maximum load-carrying capacity, deflection ...