Purpose: Process flexibility (PF) is seen as a hedging instrument against demand uncertainty. This paper aims to examine capacity decisions for both flexible and dedicated processes under production policies such as make-to-order and make-to-stock. The study identifies some relative benefits,...

The superior performance of echelon stock based policies for multi-stage serial and assembly inventory systems has been well established in literature. De Bodt and Graves [1] were the first to develop an echelon stock based continuous review (R,Q) model for a two-stage serial system. In this...

Purpose: In this article, we identify various foodservice-related attributes that are important for undergraduate students residing in hostels and avail service from specific foodservice providers. We also investigate the performance of attributes to determine areas where the foodservice...