The facility layout problem (FLP) is the problem of determining non-overlapping positions of departments on the shop floor to minimize material handling costs. Traditional methods for solving FLPs consider pairwise (from-to) flows to optimize layouts. This paper shows that these traditional...

Well-designed and timely reminders can mitigate individuals’ limited attention by bringing the desirable activity (and its outcome) to the top of their minds. However, individuals may mentally switch off to such reminders if they are delivered repetitively in a monotonous fashion. Drawing from...

The facility layout problem (FLP) is the problem of determining non-overlapping positions of departments on the shop floor to minimize material handling costs. Traditional methods for solving FLPs consider pairwise (from-to) flows to optimize layouts. This paper shows that these traditional...

In order to survive in the global volatile market place, supply chain analysts’ are brainstorming to arrive at robust inventory control policies that prevents inventory worth of millions of dollars to get tied up in the chain and at the same time ensures to achieve the differentiated customer...

Vehicle rental providers offer differentiated services to reserve and walk-in customers. In this research, we study one such service differentiation strategy, a vehicle threshold policy, which is to hold vehicles for reserve class customers in anticipation of their future arrivals. To consider...

We develop a quick and approximate way to address the fleet sizing problem for transporters with non-stationary demands and uncertain trip times. Non-stationary demands are modeled using Markov-modulated Poisson process (MMPP) and the variable fleet size is modeled using multi-server queuing...

Technological innovations in warehouse automation systems, such as Autonomous Vehicle based Storage and Retrieval System (AVS/RS), are geared towards achieving greater operational efficiency and flexibility that would be necessary in warehouses of the future. AVS/RS relies on autonomous vehicles...