Sß. Selc ßuk Ereng uc ß , N.C. Simpson , Asoo J. Vakharia c,* a Department of Decision and Information Sciences, College of Business Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7169, USA b Department of Management Science and Systems, School of Management, University at Bu€alo, Bu€alo, NY 14260-4000, USA c Department of Decision and Information Sciences, College of Business Ad...

The critical importance of integrating production, distribution, and inventory (PDI) operations has long been recognized by top management of many companies. Now. using (he laiest advances in Managemenl Science modeling and solution technology, an integruied computer-based PDI system has saved approximately $18 million dollars during its first three years of implemenlalion for a major national ...

Production planning and maintenance are two important problems in manufacturing systems. Despite the relationship exists between these two problems due to sudden failures and production capacity occupied by maintenance activities, each of these problems planned separately and as a result program and model efficiencies reduce in the real world. The aim of integrated production and maintena...

The critical importance of integrating production, distribution, and inventory (POI) operations has long been recognized by top management of many companies. Now. using the latest advances in Management Science modeling and solution technology, an integrated computer-based POI system has saved approximately $18 million dollars during its first three years of implementation for a major national ...

The integrated problem of production and distribution scheduling is relevant in many industrial applications. Thus, many heuristics to solve this integrated problem have been developed in the last decade. Most of these heuristics use a sequential working principal or a single decomposition and integration approach to separate and solve subproblems. A heuristic using a multi step decomposition a...

Perishability of blood products as well as uncertainty in demand amounts complicate the management of blood supply for blood centers. This paper addresses a mixed-integer linear programming model for blood platelets production planning while integrating the processes of blood collection as well as production/testing, inventory control and distribution. Whole blood-derived production methods for...