Remanufacturing activities are gaining momentum in the manufacturing industry. Therefore, the need for optimized networks becomes more pressing. In this paper we take a profit maximization approach to simultaneously determine the optimal network and the delivery strategy to support...

The performance of health care systems in terms of patient flow times and utilization of critical resources can be assessed through queueing and simulation models. We model the orthopaedic department of the Middelheim hospital (Antwerpen, Belgium) focusing on the impact of outages (preemptive...

In this paper we provide a novel approach to characterize the order process of an (s,S) and an (r,nQ) inventory policy. These inventory policies are commonly used when a fixed order cost is present. We provide two distinct perspectives. First, we analyze the time between subsequent...