Delivery reliability has emerged as a key competitive factor in a variety of service and manufacturing industries. Thus, many firms are adopting the use of delivery-time guarantees as part of their market positioning strategy. This research generalizes existing blanket delivery-time guarantee...

This note presents an integer programming formulation for determining the optimal balance for the U-line line balancing problem. It is shown that this model can optimally solve larger problems than previously reported.

In a recent paper, Alfares [2007. Inventory model with stock-level dependent demand rate and variable holding cost. International Journal of Production Economics, 108 (1-2), 259-265] presented an inventory model with a stock-dependent demand rate and variable holding costs. The analysis imposed...