Manufacturing processes have a significant contribution to energy consumption and related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in product’s life cycle. Today, information on GHG is increasingly demanded from companies cycle perspective, based the methodology of Life Cycle Assessment. supply producers final products are, therefore, requested provide data their manufacturing resulting products. Obtaini...

Abstract In this paper, we propose a new robust cycle-based control policy for single installation inventory models with non-stationary uncertain demand. The policy is simple, flexible, easily implementable and preliminary numerical experiments suggest that the policy has very promising empirical performance. The policy can be used both when the excess demand is backlogged as well as when it is...

This paper shows how to set basestock levels in a multiproduct system with setups and random yield. The system is represented by a polling model and the inventory level of each product is controlled using a basestock policy. When the queue is empty, the inventory level is equal to the basestock level, thus the server will continue to serve the queue until it is empty. If the capacity of the que...

human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection is the major problem in the world. nowadays, new anti-retroviral drugs are extracted from medicinal plants, make an important role to supersede synthetic drugs with different side effects. in this study, we studied the salix aegyptiaca l extract, iranian herb, as an anti-hiv drug with anti-retroviral effects. we used a single cycle replicable (scr) h...

it is assumed in most of the existing models that the items can be stored for an unlimited time to meet the future’s demand and their quality and quantity does not change during that period. nevertheless there are special kinds of products which deteriorate or become unusable (such as food products, alcohol, medicines, etc.). therefore if the rate of deterioration is significantly high, the imp...

  The importance of reliable supply is increasing with supply chain network extension and just-in-time (JIT) production. Just in time implications motivate manufacturers towards single sourcing, which often involves problems with unreliable suppliers. If a single and reliable vendor is not available, manufacturer can split the order among the vendors in order to simultaneously decrease the supp...

We search for useful models of aggregate fluctuations with inventories. We focus exclusively on dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models that endogenously give rise to inventory investment and evaluate two leading candidates: the (S,s) model and the stockout avoidance model. Each model is examined under both technology shocks and preference shocks, and its performance gauged by its ability...

This paper discusses how a vendor manages multiple products within its multiple non-identical retailers operating under a vendor managed inventory (VMI) contract that allows unequal shipment frequencies to the retailers. The vendor replenishment cycle for each product is taken to be an integer multiple of the retailer replenishment cycle where vendor is penalized for exceeding the upper stock l...

In this paper, using the maximum principle for analyzing dynamic cost, we propose a new twostage supply chain model of the manufacturing-assembly mode for high-tech perishable products supply chain and obtain the optimal conditions and results. On this basis, we further research the effect of localization of CODP on the total cost and the relation of CODP, inventory policy and demand type throu...

Economic order/production quantity (EOQ/EPQ) models have generally been presented for manufacturing products. Incorporating some important features of a specific category of products, different EOQ/EPQ models have been proposed in literature. This study proposes a new class of inventory models, i.e. a model for a specific type of inventory items: growing items. Poultry and livestock are good ex...