..., savings from operating and inventory expense reductions should be seen as part of the overall TOC philosophy. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Continuous improvement Management philosophy Organizational performance Management accounting Inventory control Production control...

...). © MCB UP Limited 2003 Vendors Inventory control Management Supply chain Dynamics Production planning and control It is well established that removing an echelon in a supply chain can be of great benefit in improving dynamic performance (Wikner et al., 1991...

... that some commonly used inventory models are quite robust to stochastic operating parameters in the unique/rework environment. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Computer simulation Inventory control Maintenance Warehousing The problem of determining optimal inventory levels in a repair/rework...

... for academicians and practitioners to draw from. Discusses key research findings, provides an overall assessment of the research in these areas and shapes an agenda for future research by identifying important gaps in the literature. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Classification Inventory control Logistics...

... quantity, the number of shipments and safety stock, which minimize the joint total cost of the vendor and purchaser and ensure the required level of supply. Analyzes the savings provided by this method and the sensitivity of the models, in detail. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Inventory control Just...

... inventory and gives a brief overview of the contemporary literature on the subject. Presents the solution approach adopted and the results of the study, which indicate that significant savings can be realized through good management of service‐parts inventory. Case studies Inventory control Personal...

.... © MCB UP Limited 1996 Heuristics Inventory control MRP Production planning and control Supply‐chain management When joint ordering costs are introduced into MSPP environments the issue of family‐member order co‐ordination is added to the difficulty of predecessor/successor...

.... Data4 Sparc IJOPM 1996 Vol 16 4 Maths Di Tab Element 2 Table I Conditional expectation function, h(z) (z > 0) Table I Element 4 © MCB UP Limited 1996 Inventory control Lot size Stochastic modelling Stockout Calculation...

...Jan Olhager Safety stocks can be introduced in different ways in production and inventory control systems. The three basic types are physical safety stock, safety lead time, and hedging. Departing from the formula for calculating the number of kanbans, it is shown that all three approaches...

... the first order optimality condition on Q*, i.e. Equation (3) Equation (3) (Continued) Substituting (3) into (2), we can show that Furthermore, if (4) is minimized at M = M*, © MCB UP Limited 1995 Co‐operation Integration Inventory control Just‐in‐time A major...

... example of the model applied to an actual manufacturing system of an automobile parts manufacturer in order to verify the effectiveness of the solution procedure and to clarify the applicability of the modelling approach. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Computer programming Inventory control Just...

..., especially at lower levels of inventory in the system. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Assembly line balancing Inventory control Just‐in‐time Line management Modelling Operations management Production management Simulation Many authors believe that the primary focus of competition...

... the supply‐production‐distribution chain is the mechanism for time‐based competition. Competitive advantage Inventory control Lead times Product management Time management In an increasingly intense competitive environment, the effective deployment of organizational resources is of paramount...

... the research in production and inventory control in each of the extreme types. Identifies a control framework for operations management in process/flow businesses. Notes that although detailed scheduling approaches for batch/mix businesses exist, a control framework for the latter is missing. Concludes...

.... This situation is similar to situation Equation 7 except that a failure of the operating unit occurs before the arrival of stock replenishment. Some shortage cost is also incurred besides replacement and order costs. Equation 8 © MCB UP Limited 1994 Costs Inventory control Maintenance...

... and the control charts and identifies the causes, which can be fitness‐related and/or operations related. Problems can be quickly diagnosed and corrective action taken so the reorder point system will perform as intended. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Control charts Inventory control Inventory turnover Just...

... Inventory control Quantitative methods IJOPM 13,11 On the Constrained Multi-item Single-period Inventory Problem 104 M. Ben-Daya and Abdul Raouf Received November 1992 Accepted March 1993 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Introduction Inventory is essential...

..., in addition,they cannot take into account the wide variety of cost and other factors that influence inventory control decisions. Presents an alternative method for identifying economic batch quantities that uses genetic algorithms (GA) based on the underlying mathematical processes that control...

... Customer service Inventory control Manufacturing industry IJOPM 13,10 The Effect of Capacity Limitations on Safety Stock John Mapes Cranfield School of Management, UK 26 Although one of the objectives of most manufacturing systems is to operate at as close to full capacity utilization as possible...

...Fariborz Y. Partovi; Jonathan Burton Presents a multicriteria approach to the ABC classification problem in inventory control. The proposed method, based on Saaty′s Analytic Hierarchy Process, rates items on both qualitative and quantitative criteria. Demonstrates the model through an example...