This paper offers an up-to-date review on strategic capacity planning in manufacturing
companies, with two main objectives:(1) to describe and analyze the strategic capacity …

Part I of this three-part series described semiconductor supply chains from the decision-
making and functional perspectives, using this as a framework to review the industrial …

Purpose–On one side, the purpose of this paper is to numerically analyze the emergency
order allocation mechanism and help managers to understand the relationship between the …

We study a service expansion problem for chained business facilities under endogenic
facility congestion and exogenous market competition. More specifically, we consider a …

Market changes, uncertainties and unpredictability characterize the market environment
nowadays. The possibility to cooperate in a network allows companies to stay competitive …

A logistics service supply chain (LSSC) consisting of one logistics service integrator (LSI)
and many functional logistics service providers (FLSPs) is discussed in this paper. In the …

Resource portfolio planning optimization is crucial to high-tech manufacturing industries.
One of the most important characteristics of such a problem is intensive investment and risk …

Profitable but risky semiconductor testing market has led companies in the industry to
carefully seek to maximize their profits by developing a proper resource portfolio plan for …

Since the uncertainty involved in demand forecast is increasingly amplified with the forecast
lead-time, high-tech companies often suffer the risks of oversupply and shortage of capacity …

This paper studies capacity planning problems in two-stage Thin Film Transistor-Liquid
Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) production networks. In the TFT-LCD industry, capacity planning …