Supply Chain Management has become an integrated part of today's industries. Advancement in technology in this field is the key to the successful operation of businesses. Many techniques and algorithms have a risen dealing with the challenging problems of present industry. In this paper, we have...

This article describes how the conversion rate of a web page depends on the interface usability degree. Optimization of existing interfaces as the matter of improving their usability faces a number of difficulties. In the first place, the unified objective function selection method for such...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the maintenance management problems of generating units under the reliability criterion. Design/methodology/approach – The problem has been formulated as a combinatorial optimization task, with explicit and simultaneous treatment of multiple...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a method of optimal trajectory planning for robotic manipulators that applies an improved teaching-learning-based optimization (ITLBO) algorithm. Design/methodology/approach The ITLBO algorithm possesses better ability to escape from the local...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to capture the dynamic variations in sales of a product based upon the dynamic estimation of the time series data and propose a model that imitates the price discounting and promotion strategy for a product category in a retail organization....

A comprehensive review of the literature for the problem of lot‐size scheduling (serial and assembly) considering the uncapacitated problem and complicated capacitated assembly manufacturing structure. Analyses the different solution techniques and findings for each product set.

Describes a spreadsheet approach for implementing Wagner‐Whitin (WW) and Silver‐Meal (SM) methods for lotsizing time‐varying demands. Suggests that this approach manages the computation and makes tedious and repetitive tasks more interesting; consequently, the student/user can concentrate...

Recently several authors have concentrated their efforts in developing models to determine the economic lot size for multi‐stage systems. This is due to the fact that an increasing number of organisations are implementing material requirements planning systems. Numerous models have been...

Lot‐splitting involves the possibility of lot sizes at intermediate processing steps being less than the production release of the finished good. However, the limited research in this area has not been sufficient to counter the conventional wisdom that lot‐splitting (1) is appropriate only...