Supply chains are formed out of complex interactions amongst several enterprises whose aim is to produce and transport goods so that customer desired products are sold at various retail outlets. Computing the total average cycle time for customer orders entering such a complex network of systems is an important exercise. In this paper, we present analytical models for evaluating the average lea...

We present a framework to analyze the process location and product distribution problem with uncertain yields for a large multinational food processing company. This problem consists of selecting the location of processes, the assignment of products, and the distribution of production quantities to markets in order to minimize total expected costs. It differs from the traditional facility locat...

Enterprise-wide optimization (EWO) is a new emerging area that lies at the interface of chemical engineering and operations research, and has become a major goal in the process industries due to the increasing pressures for remaining competitive in the global marketplace. EWO involves optimizing the operations of supply, manufacturing and distribution activities of a company to reduce costs and...