Full, accurate and evident information about stocks is a key factor of successful inventory management process. Effective inventory management should include a comprehensive solution, based on mathematical methods and control of current balances and software. Such solution for small businesses should be effective and should not be too expensive. The paper shows an approach to using database tec...

the inventory routing problem (irp) arises in the context of vendor-managed systems. this problem addresses jointly solving an inventory management problem and a vehicle routing problem. in this paper, we consider a multi-depot multi-vehicle inventory routing problem in which suppliers produce one type of product to be delivered to customers during a finite time horizon. we propose a two-phase ...

Semiconductor capital equipment is manufactured in a high-mix and low-volume environment at Varian Semiconductor Equipment business unit of Applied Materials. Due to the demand growth over the past years, Varian has been continuously improving its operations practices to increase the factory capacity without investing additional floor space or labor shifts. A hypothesis-driven analysis is used ...

This thesis presents a new modeling framework and research methodology for the study of recipe-based, diet-planning inventory management. The thesis begins with an exploration on the classic optimization problem the diet problem based upon mixed-integer linear programming. Then, considering the fact that real diet-planning is sophisticated as it would be planning recipes rather than possible ra...

The rise of the Internet has revolutionized the manner in which retailers operate. The early stages of the dot com era allowed businesses to experiment with different business models. Internet retailers focused on front-end activities, overlooking the importance of back-end operations such as supply chain management. Retailers have the option to distribute their products via the traditional met...

a new mathematical model for the optimal production isformulated for the inventory management system under time-varyingand stochastic inflation environment for deteriorating items. the timehorizon is finite and demand rate is dependent to the inflation. in thereal situation, some but not all customers will wait for backlogged itemsduring a shortage period, such as for fashionable commodities or...

On the basis of analyzing the relationship between the equipment system and spare parts inventory, this paper proposes two-level equipment and spare parts system management based on the Theory of Constraints. From the system point of view and according to the Theory of Constraints, the manufacturing organization identifies bottleneck equipments in equipment system and makes the bottleneck equip...

Supply chain management (SCM) is an emerging field that has commanded attention and support from the industrial community. Supply chain (SC) is defined as the chain linking each entity of the manufacturing and supply process from raw materials through to the end user. In order to increase supply chain effectiveness, minimize total cost, and reduce the bullwhip effect, integration and coordinati...

Of the many improvements in the design of highway pavements during the past two decades, it is doubtful that any have been more important to the life and service of the pavement than the incorporation of the granular base course as a design feature. The true significance of the base course can be more thoroughly understood if one considers the merits of this practice. First, the properly design...