In today’s retail business many companies have a complex distribution network with several national and regional distribution centers. This article studies an integrated facility location and inventory allocation problem for designing a distribution network with multiple distribution centers...

The semiconductor manufacturing systems that involve a large number of products and many steps can be modeled through conservation laws for a continuous density variable on production processes. In this paper, the basic partial differential equation (PDE) models for single-product re-entrant...

This paper addresses the strategic pricing decisions of a decentralized assemble-to-order system, and the effects of sourcing structure on system performance. We consider an assemble-to-order system consisting of two substitute products and three components manufactured by different suppliers....