serial and assembly production/distribution systems. We propose optimal and heuristic procedures to solve this problem. Our …

finished goods inventory level for serial systems with buffer inventories between stages. This distribution leads to fill …

This paper considers serial production-transportation systems. In recent years, researchers have developed a fairly …

for Q and r, and upper bounds on the optimal long run average cost and on the optimal batch size. As a byproduct we … addition, when the newsvendor cost is known, we obtain sharper lower and upper bounds on the long run average cost. These … bounds clarify, in an exceedingly simple way, the cost impact of fixed setup costs, demand variability, and constraints on …

The paper presents a transformation of a multi-stage optimal control model with random switching time to an age …