The objective of this paper is to investigate the potential added value being able relocate production capacity, relative fixed in a network multiple, geographically distributed manufacturing sites. There growing number examples capacity that can be relocated with modest amount effort; e.g., 3D printers, bioreactors for cell and gene manufacturing, modular units pharmaceutical intermediates. Su...

In equipment-intensive industries such as truck, electronics, aircraft and dredging vessel manufacturing, service parts are often slow moving items for which the transshipment time is not negligible. However, this aspect is hardly considered in the existing service logistics literature. In this paper, we consider this aspect and propose a customer-oriented service measure which takes into accou...

This paper designs a reliability distribution network with limited capacity under partial and complete facility disruptions. To increase the reliability of the distribution network, a new mixed integer linear programing model is developed by considering multiple mitigation strategies including diversification, fortification, and transshipment. The distribution network constitutes of reliable di...

An innovative type called "butterfly-shaped links steel plate shear wall (BLSPSW)" was proposed as a lateral load resisting system. In this novel system, by creating butterfly-shaped links in the four sides of the web plate, the lateral load resisting mechanism is not the development of a diagonal tension field on the web plate (similar to Conventional SPSWs), but the capacity of the system is ...

We consider a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery leadtime, this inventory is dynamically allocated or rationed to each of the retailers. While Eppen and Schrage (1981) assume that all unfilled demand is backordered, we allow some demand to be rejected to keep inve...

The main objective when managing inventories in blood supply chains is to establish an efficient balance between the wastage and shortage of units. uncertain demand perishable nature units can result over- or under-stocking increase costs. In this study, we analyze how a proactive transshipment policy avoid future shortages addition mitigate wastage. We consider network hospitals with which eac...

In managing an inventory network, two approaches to the pooling of stock have been proposed. Reactive transshipments respond to shortages at a location by moving inventory from elsewhere within the network, while proactive stock redistribution seeks to minimize the chance of future stockouts. This paper is the first to propose an enhanced reactive approach in which individual transshipments are...

At rail-road transshipment yards, gantry cranes move containers from freight trains to trucks and vice versa. They constitute important entities in today's intermodal transportation systems. Real-world yards are often partitioned into several disjunct crane areas, so that crane interferences during container transshipment are avoided. In practice, the lengths of such crane areas are typically d...