The efficiency and the effectiveness of supply chain networks primarily rely on facility location decisions. However, these decisions are closely related to the other supply chain management decisions, i.e., inventory management and transportation decisions. Therefore, the main goal of this...

In this dissertation, we consider an inventory sharing and rationing problem in continuous-review, infinite-horizon, distribution networks. Unlike previous literature on inventory sharing, we model inventory sharing as a multiple demand classes problem in which each dealer faces two classes of...

In this thesis, we identify the critical operational characteristics for various distribution strategies, and then develop integrated distribution network design models by taking into account those operational factors. The first part of this thesis presents a crossdocking network design problem...