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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Inventory Systems"”.
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Information inaccuracy in inventory systems
It is critically important for inventory-carrying facilities to provide high availability of products at the minimal operating cost. To achieve this objective, many companies have automated their inventory operations and rely on the information system in critical decision makings. However, if the …
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Inventory Systems with Transshipments and Quantity Discounts
This research advances knowledge in the area of inventory systems and the relationship between competing retailers and suppliers of goods. This dissertation studies retailers that face uncertainty in the demand for goods and who purchase the goods from a single supplier. A game theoretic …
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Queueing control problems for production/inventory systems
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992.
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A new perspective on multi-echelon inventory systems
… a new methodology for analyzing multi-echelon inventory systems. The methodology relies on decomposing complicated multi-echelon inventory control problems into much smaller and managable subproblems, whose solutions in turn help us either characterize the structure of optimal policies for the …
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A new approach to multistage serial inventory systems
We consider a single product multistage serial inventory system with several installations, say N - I, ... , l. Installation N - I intakes exogenous supply of a single commodity. For i E {I, ... N - 2}, installation i is supplied by shipments from installation i + 1. Demands for the finished good …
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Applications of robust optimization to queueing and inventory systems
… in the performance analysis of queueing and inventory systems. In the first part of the thesis, we propose a new approach for performance analysis of queueing systems based on robust optimization. We first derive explicit upper bounds on performance for tandem single class, multiclass single …
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New algorithms exploiting randomness in lead times in inventory systems
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Grouping Techniques to Manage Large-Scale Multi-Item Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems
<p>Large retail companies operate large-scale systems which may consist of thousands of stores. These retail stores and their suppliers, such as warehouses and manufacturers, form a large-scale multi-item multi-echelon inventory supply network. Operations of this kind of inventory system require a …
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Asymptotic Analysis and Performance-based Design of Large Scale Service and Inventory Systems
… some equipment or machines, e.g. transportation systems using vehicles. Designs of these systems require capacity decisions, e.g., the number of vehicles. In my dissertation, I use many-server and conventional heavy-traffic limit theory to derive asymptotically optimal capacity decisions, giving …
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Heuristics for Inventory Systems Based on Quadratic Approximation of L-Natural-Convex Value Functions
… scheme for single-product periodic-review inventory systems with L-natural-convex structure. We lay out three well-studied inventory models, namely the lost-sales system, the perishable inventory system, and the joint inventory-pricing problem. We approximate the value functions for these …
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Use of Advance Demand Information in Inventory Management with Two Demand Classes
This work considers inventory systems with two demand classes, where advance demand information is available. Three related scenarios are presented: three-stage production-inventory systems are studied in first two, whereas pure inventory systems are studied in the last scenario. In the first …
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Essays on Individual Incentives and Private Information
… in three operations management environments: inventory systems, revenue management and healthcare policies. The first model studies the impact of multilateral asymmetric information about inventories in a two-echelon inventory systems. The second model applies optimization techniques to solve …
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Optimal inventory control for assemble-to-order systems: A stochastic programming based asymptotic analysis framework
This dissertation focuses on the study of optimal inventory control of Assemble-to-Order (ATO) systems, a common strategy developed in supply chain management to address the mismatch between supply and demand. Historically, the optimal control of ATO systems has been shown to be a notoriously …
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Experimental Studies in Decision Making and Management Control
… budgeting, capital budgeting, valuation, inventory systems, product-costing systems, and transfer pricing systems.
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Floor health predictive support for highly automated distribution centers
While automated mobile inventory systems have greatly increased productivity, it has also created a new set of operational challenges. Floor health events, such as fallen product, spills, disabled robots, and floor access can degrade overall floor performance by obstructing access to product, …
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Inventory Models for Intermittent Highly Variable Demand and Policy Parameter Adjustments to Meet Desired Service Level Requirements
… demand models for the continuous review (r;Q) inventory policy. A number of classic distributions as well as distribution selection rules are examined under a wide variety of demand conditions. First, the models are compared to each other by assuming a known demand process and evaluating the …
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Compatible taper and volume equations for yellow-poplar in West Virginia
… functions are an important component of most inventory systems for use in estimating upper stem diameter, form, and tree volume. Compatible taper and volume functions can be derived through the mathematical integration of taper functions. Non-linear regression techniques were employed to …
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Harvesting the plastic we have sowed : costs and challenges in, and a novel application of blockchain for implementing extended producer responsibility in Chile
… and producers', retailers, and recyclers' inventory systems on an integrated public permission blockchain that tracks the flow of products, and measures and rewards every agent's contribution to proper waste management in a transparent, reliable, and groundbreaking way. Such an application …
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