Inventory shrinkage is prevalent in many industries. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been regarded as a promising solution for inventory inaccuracy. Many retailers endeavor to push their suppliers to adopt this technology. This paper considers the situation of a retailer...

A 3D numerical model for gas production from hydrate reservoirs is developed, which considers kinetics of dissociation, heat and multiphase fluid flow. Three components (gas, water and hydrate) and three phases (gas, water and hydrate) are considered in the model. The equations are spatially...

We study a monopolist manufacturer who makes new products in the first period and makes new and remanufactured products simultaneously in the second period. The manufacturing and remanufacturing activities in the two-period planning horizon are limited by carbon cap and trade mechanism...

The aim of this study is to investigate whether outsourcing activities in east china are associated with a theoretical framework derived from the literature. By the methodology of Statistics Package for the Social Science (SPSS), the results of survey indicate that outsourcing will more...

We consider a generalization of the classical open shop and flow shop scheduling problems where the jobs are located at the vertices of an undirected graph and the machines, initially located at the same vertex, have to travel along the graph to process the jobs. The objective is to minimize the...

China’s petrochemical industries are playing an important role in China’s economic development. However, the industries consume large amounts of energy and have become primary sources of carbon emission. In this paper, the change in carbon emissions from China’s petrochemical industries...