Operations design in a network of suppliers and service providers requires a scheme by which the operations are assigned to the suppliers and service providers. This paper introduces a scheme for pattern-based operations design in an evolving multi-company network (i.e. “virtual enterprise”). It presents operations design patterns for solving four problems of managerial importance for customizi...

Data from about 1,000 laboratories participating in the Diagnostic Immunology portion of the 1978 Center for Disease Control Proficiency Testing Program provided information dealing with laboratory performance and trends in testing protocols. Ninety specimens were distributed in scheduled quarterly and semiannual shipments, and five additional specimens were provided in a special survey. The sp...

Dell’s supply chain for desktops involves Asian vendors shipping components by sea to several U.S. plants. While suppliers are responsible for shipping enough inventory, Dell can re-route and expedite their shipments while in transit and also transfer on-hand inventory in order to balance supply across sites. This paper describes the development, implementation and impact of the process and opt...

This study deals with the dynamic sales behavior of successive generations of high-technology products. New technologies diffuse through a population of potential buyers over time. Therefore, diffusion theory models are related to this demand growtfi. Furthermore, successive generations of a technology compete with earlier ones, and that behavior is the subject of models of technological substi...

Online markets for transportation services, in the form of Internet sites that dynamically match shipments (shippers’ demand) and transportation capacity (carriers’ offer) through auction mechanisms are changing the traditional structure of transportation markets. A general framework for the study of carriers’ behavior in a sequential auction transportation marketplace is provided. The unique c...

This study develops an improved inventory model to help the enterprises to advance their profit increasing and cost reduction in a single vendor single-buyer environment with general demand curve, adjustable production rate, and imperfect reworking process under permissible delay in payments. For advancing practical use in a real world, we are concerned with the following strategy determining, ...

This study implements and tests a mathematical programming model to estimate interregional, interindustry transaction flows in a national system of economic regions based on an interregional accounting framework and initial information of interregional shipments. A national input–output (IO) table, regional data on gross output, value-added, exports, imports, and final demand at sector level ar...

A multi-customer finite production rate (FPR) model with quality assurance and discontinuous delivery policy was investigated in a recent paper (Chiu et al. in J Appl Res Technol 12(1):5-13, 2014) using differential calculus approach. This study employs mathematical modeling along with a two-phase algebraic method to resolve such a specific multi-customer FPR model. As a result, the optimal rep...

PT Fajar Multiguna is a start-up company engaged in the Procurement of Government Goods/Services and Logistics for delivery procurement packages. Quite lot other companies that use this service. The system runs still manual, there no website to track whereabouts packages are transit. An information needed make it easier customers shipments. For reason, web-based Information was designed with La...

This chapter reviews Operations Research models for strategic design of motor carrier networks, including network configuration and terminal location. This includes networks for less-than-truckload (LTL), truckload (TL), and postal motor carriers that serve many origins and destinations in large geographic regions. LTL carriers, as well as postal carriers, use networks with consolidation and br...