Rationing is an inventory policy that allows prioritization of demand classes. It enables the inventory system to provide higher service levels for critical demand classes. In thi...
Dell’s supply chain for desktops involves Asian vendors shipping components by sea to several U.S. plants. While suppliers are responsible for shipping enough inventory, Dell ca...
Working in collaboration with Spain-based retailer Zara, we address the problem of distributing over time a limited amount of inventory across all the stores in a fast-fashion ret...
: 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 co...
Vendor managed inventory replenishment is a business practice in which vendors monitor their customers' inventories, and decide when and how much inventory should be replenis...
Anton J. Kleywegt, Vijay S. Nori, Martin W. P. Sav...
Internet companies extensively use the practice of drop-shipping, where the wholesaler stocks and owns the inventory and ships products directly to customers at retailers' re...
Despite the importance of the management of inventory in industrial scheduling applications, there has been little research that has addressed reasoning about inventory directly a...
In a manufacturing environment it is often necessary to perform a manual inventory of finished goods and raw materials. These raw materials might be wood, plastic or metal and oft...