The supply chain of a typical product starts with material input, followed by production, and
finally distribution of the end product to customers. The cost of a product includes not only …

Traceability has become an essential business function to consistently supply quality and
safe food products to consumers. However, it has been not rare that the efforts in traceability …

Forming strategic alliances and utilizing modern information technologies have been the two
most important ways for firms to gain such competitive advantages as lower logistics costs …

The food industry has been under pressure regarding improving food safety, implementing
efficient risk management, and managing quality 'from farm to fork'. Individual parties in a …

A stochastic lot-sizing and scheduling problem with demand uncertainty is studied in this
paper. Lot-sizing determines the batch size for each product and scheduling decides the …

A lot-sizing and scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setups is addressed in this
paper. In the production system, manufactories receive raw materials from upstream sites …

A method is developed for designing broadband beamformers with highly frequency-
invariant behavior. The method combines harmonic nesting with filter-and-sum …

This paper proposes an optimal integrated production-inventory model with multiple discrete
delivery and shortage to manage the step-wise delivery of the products to the retailers. The …

This research addresses an optimal policy for production and procurement in a supply-chain
system with multiple non-competing suppliers, a manufacturer and multiple non-identical …

This paper addresses the problem of a manufacturing system that procures raw materials
from suppliers in a lot and processes them to convert to finished products. It proposes an …