This paper investigates the impact of a vendor managed inventory (VMI) strategy upon transportation operations in a supply chain. Specifically, the issue of batching to enable better use of transport vehicles is studied. A system dynamics methodology is used to develop difference equation models of three scenarios–– traditional, internal consolidation and VMI. The holistic nature of inventory m...

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This research addressed the Bullwhip Effect (BWE) in the supply chain of small companies and quantified the impact of the interaction between demand management strategies and forecasting methods on BWE. Experiments were performed with four management strategies and three forecasting techniques for different levels of seasonality, lead times, and order batching. Results indicate that no demand m...

We study the problems of scheduling jobs, with different release dates and equal processing times, on two types of batching machines. All jobs of the same batch start and are completed simultaneously. On a serial batching machine, the length of a batch equals the sum of the processing times of its jobs and, when a new batch starts, a constant setup time s occurs. On a parallel batching machine,...

This research deals with a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with parallel batching, machine eligibility, unrelated parallel machine, and different release dates to minimize the sum of the total weighted earliness and tardiness (ET) penalties. In parallel batching situation, it is supposed that number of machine in some stages are able to perform a certain number of jobs simultaneously. First...

According to the traditional control methods of batching-material exists system defects low precision and bad real time, this paper has proposed the combined control algorithm. This paper has designed a Fuzzy-PID control Glass batching-material system by using of combining the traditional PID and the Fuzzy control algorithm. The system uses expert system of online learning and adjusts automatic...

An emerging class of distributed applications such as graph processing and key-value store require fine grained non-uniform memory access and communication, which commodity networking infrastructure is ill-equipped to handle. By batching messages on the end host we can increase bandwidth utilization at the cost of latency and memory. However, by batching messages in the network instead of exclu...