Part I: Review on Supply Chain Risk Management -- Risks in Supply Chain Management -- Supply Chain Risk Management: An Enterprise View and a Survey of Methods -- Part II: Supply Chain Risk Strategies and Developments -- Retail Supply Chain Risk and Disruption: A Behavioral Agency Approach --...

In this study, we analyze the challenges faced by manufacturers in promoting sustainability throughout their supply chains when the supplier is capital-constrained, has private access to production cost information, and must choose between regular and sustainable production. We develop a dyadic...

This paper presents a methodology for job rotation in manufacturing systems that aims to ease employee's boredom and exploit the effect of rotation intervals on worker's skill learning and forgetting. To this end, a series of formulations are proposed to measure employee's boredom and skill...

This thesis studies a single item periodic review inventory problem with stochastic demand, random price and quotation cost. It differs from the traditional inventory model in that at the beginning of each period, a decision is made whether to pay the quotation cost to get the price information....

This research focuses on Markov Decision Processes (MDP). MDP is one of the most important and challenging areas of Operations Research. Every day people make many decisions: today's decisions impacttomorrow's and tomorrow's will impact the ones made the day after. Problems in Engineering,...