Abstract The present paper deals with the optimization of inventory networks which potentially exist in any supply chains. After introducing the theory of quick response production, we discuss the methodology to optimize the inventory levels of a production/inventory system considering multiple semifinished and finished products by a collaborative use of mathematical and simulation models. A nu...

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this paper presents an inventory model for deteriorating items in which shortages are allowed. it is assumed that the production rate is proportional to the demand rate and greater than demand rate. the inventory model is developed by considering four different circumstances. the optimal of the problem is obtained with the help of mathematica 7 software. numerical examples are given to illustra...

The main purpose of this paper is to present a case study of application of simulation on the production line of the heat treatment. This study was developed using concepts of queuing theory and simulation. The main result showed the best distribution of products targeting the most responsive customer service.

The importance for this tutorial is to introduce the students into the loss systems, and, to underline the difference between the concepts of call-blocking and time-blocking probabilities, and to understand under which conditions these probabilities are identical. The selected exercises introduce, also, the Erlang tables, which is an important tool for easy calculations for the blocking probabi...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: C02 M11 C44 C61 Keywords: Multi-item production system Rotation cycle time Multi-delivery Economic production quantity model Scrap Vendor–buyer integrated system This paper addresses the joint determination of a rotation cycle time and number of shipments for a multi-item economic production quantity (EPQ) model with random defective rate. The classic E...

In many production=distribution systems, materials !ow from one stage to another in %xed lot sizes. For example, a retailer orders a full truckload from a manufacturer to qualify for a quantity discount; a factory has a material handling system that moves full containers of parts from one production stage to the next. In this paper, we derive optimal policies for multi-stage serial and assembly...

Mobile ad-hoc networks pose real difficulty in finding the multihop shortest paths because of continuous changing positions of the nodes. Traditional ad-hoc routing protocols are proposed to find multi-hop routes based on shortest path routing algorithms, which cannot effectively adapt to time-varying radio links and network topologies of Ad-hoc networks. In this paper we proposed an enhanced r...

Most of the real life multi server queuing systems have heterogeneous servers which means each service rates are different than each other. Analysis of such queuing system plays important role to improve performance. In this report, I have summarized analysis of heterogeneous multi server queuing system which has a finite and an infinite buffer. Average waiting time and average queue length are...