Bhaba R. Sarker

TL;DR: A brief, critical review and a comparative study of some design aspects of automated storage/retrieval systems with special emphasis on travel time models, including improving throughput rate, changing retrieval sequencing rules, using order batching algorithms, applying various dwell point strategies and increasing the storage/ retrieval machine capacity.

TL;DR: It is observed from the numerical study that production disruption and TPL service have significant impacts on supply chain's performance, and the effects of buyback and revenue sharing contracts tend to emerge indifferent for relatively high probability of disruption.

TL;DR: The results show that the improvements in reduction of inventory, wasted labor and customer service in a supply chain are significantly accomplished through the kanban mechanism.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of inflation and time value of money on the optimal ordering quantities and the maximum allowable shortage in a finite replenishment inventory system was investigated, and it was shown that this effect on the system becomes more significant with the increase of the difference between inflation rate and time discount rate.

TL;DR: In this article, a new similarity coefficient measure that uses a set of important characteristic properties for grouping is developed for use as an intermediate tool to form cohesive cells and a mathematical model that uses this similarity coefficient for optimally solving the cell-formation problems in cellular manufacturing is developed.