To perform diagnosis and treatment, health systems, hospitals, and other patient care
facilities require a wide range of supplies, from masks and gloves to catheters and implants …

Although experiments are the gold standard for establishing causality, several threats can
undermine the internal validity of experimental findings. In this article, we first discuss these …

Small suppliers often face challenges to obtain financing for their operations. Especially in
developing economies, traditional financing methods can be very costly or unavailable to …

We provide a comprehensive overview of the typical decisions to be made in resource
capacity planning and control in health care, and a structured review of relevant articles from …

Operating theatre represents one of the most critical and expensive hospital resources since
a high percentage of the hospital admissions is due to surgical interventions. The main …

In hospitals, the operating room (OR) is a particularly expensive facility and thus efficient
scheduling is imperative. This can be greatly supported by using advanced methods that are …

Previous research has shown that when solving a newsvendor problem, individuals
systematically and persistently deviate from the profit maximizing quantity. This paper …

Classical inventory models offer a variety of insights into the optimal way to manage
inventories of individual products. However, top managers and industry analysts are often …

In many service industries, companies compete with each other on the basis of the waiting
time their customers experience, along with other strategic instruments such as the price …

Proliferation of online social media and the phenomenal growth of online commerce have
brought to us the era of big data. Before this availability of data, models of demand …