A supply chain is the system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information,and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Themain and basic challenges in the supply chain are to plan a strategy to manage theresources and meet the demands, to...

Master of Science

This study investigated supply chain management practices in the retail grocery industry from two perspectives. First, the operational performance objectives were examined by developing and testing a periodic review, joint replenishment model and heuristic. Joint replenishment policies, designed...

This thesis addresses a problem at the nexus of operations, strategy, and economics: in concentrated markets, on the one hand firms may need to expand capacity in order to improve their competitive position, and on the other they also seek to avoid industry excess capacity causing poor industry...

Supply Chains mit hohen Absatzrisiken sind gekennzeichnet durch kurze Verkaufszyklen, einen hohen Anteil an Impulsk?ufen, eine schwer prognostizierbare Nachfrage, eine hohe zeitliche und r?umliche Verf?gbarkeit der Produkte, lange Durchlaufzeiten und eine hohe Variantenanzahl. Insbesondere...

Primäres Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Entwicklung neuer heuristischer Lösungsverfahren für die logistische Tourenplanung bei restringierendem Anhängereinsatz (engl. Truck and Trailer Routing Problem). Kennzeichnend für dieses kombinatorische Optimierungsproblem ist, dass Fahrzeuge einen...

In this dissertation, I developed a unified framework for the modeling, analysis, and computation of solutions to both international financial problems with intermediation as well as to global supply chains through the medium of networks. The framework that I developed can handle as many...

Recent technological advances in sensor and computer technology allow the observation of business and industrial processes at fairly high frequencies. For example, data used for monitoring critical parameters of industrial furnaces, conveyor belts or chemical processes may be sampled every...

We study the effect that consumer returns have on the coordination of a two-echelon supply chain with a single manufacturer and a single retailer that faces stochastic demand and a certain proportion of consumer returns for a single product. Returned goods command a full refund and result in...

Network systems, including transportation and logistic systems, electric power generation and distribution networks as well as financial networks, provide the critical infrastructure for the functioning of our societies and economies. The understanding of the dynamic behavior of such systems is...