There has been an increasing emphasis on health care efficiency and costs, and improving quality at several stages in health care settings (such as hospitals or clinics) using the idea of Total Quality Management (TQM). Despite a broad emphasis on TQM, there has not been sufficient work on...

We present a framework to analyze the process location and product distribution problem with uncertain yields for a large multinational food processing company. This problem consists in selecting the location of processes, the assignment of products and the distribution of production quantities...

This paper presents a utility function model of donors who need to determine their donation to a charity organization that structures and publishes donations by tiers. By considering the prestige associated with each tier level, our analysis suggests that a tiered scheme generates an incentive...

Eppen (1979) showed that inventory costs in a centralized system increase with the correlation between multivariate normal product demands. Using multivariate stochastic orders, we generalize this statement to arbitrary distributions. We then describe methods to construct models with arbitrary...

We model and analyze product reusability (executed through either refurbishing or remanufacturing), in the presence of supply disruptions. By assuming that consumers could exchange their used units for new ones and firms can attract consumers to do so through an exchange fee, we develop a...

In this paper, we study the problem of managing limited retail shelf or storage space for basic products by considering two inventory management strategies: space dedication and space sharing. When space is dedicated to each product, there is more flexibility in planning as different products...

When suppliers (i.e., contract manufacturers) fail to comply with environmental or safety regulations, several non-governmental agencies and consumer activists put pressure on the buyers (customers) to take necessary actions to improve supplier compliance. Due to concerns over negative image and...