Showing papers in "International Journal of Production Economics in 2003"

TL;DR: The order penetration point (OPP) defines the stage in the manufacturing value chain where a particular product is linked to a specific customer order as discussed by the authors, and is defined as the point at which a product can be linked to an order.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of inventory models with multiple supply options and their contribution to supply chain management is presented, and issues for future research and a synthesis of available supply chains management and multiple supplier inventory models are discussed.

TL;DR: VMI is shown to be significantly better at responding to volatile changes in demand such as those due to discounted ordering or price variations, and inventory recovery as measured by the integral of time×absolute error performance metric is substantially improved via VMI.

TL;DR: Using the fuzzy MCDM, it would be possible to select in advance, the most informative (efficient) maintenance approach, which leads to less planned replacements, and failures would be reduced to approximately zero and higher utilization of component life can be achieved.

TL;DR: In this paper, an approach for capturing services as an R&D object is made within the project under the general heading of service engineering, and an attempt made to systematise the development of services.

TL;DR: An assignment model with resource capacity and time-window additive constraints is proposed to solve heuristically this problem, and an extension of the Hungarian method has been developed to calculate the operating theatre planning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the seller-buyer channel in which the end demand is price sensitive and the seller may offer trade credit to the buyer, and provide procedures for determining the seller's and the buyer's policies under non-cooperative as well as cooperative relationships.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of inventory and capacity in accommodating variation and identifying how TRIZ separation principles and TOC tools may be combined in the integrated development of responsive and efficient supply chains.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simulation model is proposed to evaluate the performance of different configurations of a SC, based on a work-in-process and time performance analysis, to support the selection of suitable flexibility degrees of the operations network.

TL;DR: In this paper, an innovative UK lighting company re-engineered its supply chain to accommodate the impact of product life cycles, which enables the matching of products to pipelines thereby enabling maximisation of the appropriate order winner and market qualifier characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, the optimal cycle time for items under the conditions of permissible delay in payments is derived for the case where the unit selling price is higher than the unit purchasing price.

TL;DR: This paper presents a methodology of using Activity-based costing to evaluate the cost of the design and development activity for machined parts and demonstrates the methodology on a sample part being produced in a controlled manufacturing facility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the performance of various linear and nonlinear models for forecasting aggregate retail sales, and found that the non-linear models are able to outperform their linear counterparts in out-of-sample forecasting, and prior seasonal adjustment of the data can significantly improve forecasting performance.

TL;DR: The measurement framework can provide a consistent basis for specifying and using measures, which will empower system designers to better incorporate desirable structural properties to align system design with enterprise strategy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the results of a survey among Dutch firms listed at the Amsterdam stock exchange on the adoption and use of costing practices that resemble the Japanese target costing concept.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a buyer-supplier coordination model to facilitate frequent deliveries in small lot sizes in a manufacturing supply chain, based on the integrated total relevant costs of both buyer and supplier, determines optimal order quantity, the number of deliveries/setups, and shipping quantity over a finite planning horizon in a relatively simple JIT single buyer single supplier scenario.

TL;DR: Six published classification schemes of relevance to Mass Customization are reviewed and their failure to distinguish key characteristics is highlighted, leading to the development of a taxonomy of operational modes for MC.

TL;DR: In this article, the alignment of various manufacturing flexibility dimensions with business strategies is discussed and the one-to-one relationship between business strategy and manufacturing flexibility is established to enable managers to set clear priorities in investing and developing necessary manufacturing flexibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define supply chain flexibility as the robustness of the buyer-supplier relationship under changing supply conditions, and define a measure for estimating supply-chain flexibility as a function of varying order quantities and varying supply lead-times.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors generalize the work of Wee and consider a model where the demand rate is a convex decreasing function of the selling price and the backlogging rate was a time-dependent function, which ensures that the rate of backlogged demand increases as the waiting time to the following replenishment point decreases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a multi-echelon inventory model for a deteriorating item and derived an optimal joint total cost from an integrated perspective among the supplier, the producer, and the buyer.

TL;DR: The background to why some manufacturing organisations require a combination of agile and lean characteristics in their manufacturing organisations is presented and the development of the virtual group (VG) concept is described, which is the application of virtual cells to functional layouts.

TL;DR: The supply chain model is formulated as a discrete resource allocation problem under dynamic environment, and the applicability of the virtual market concept to this framework is demonstrated.

TL;DR: In this article, a case of a company manufacturing components for the automotive industry is presented, where the company offered its suppliers the opportunity of stocking part of the items in its own warehouses, with the agreement that they would guarantee over time an inventory level between a set minimum and a maximum value.

TL;DR: The methodology uses fuzzy QFD to convert qualitative information into quantitative parameters and then combines this data with other quantitative data to parameterize a multiobjective mathematical programming model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a general description of the state of the art of capital budgeting methods used by Swedish corporations, based on a questionnaire sent to 528 companies selected from 500 of the largest Swedish corporations and some from the O-list of companies.

TL;DR: It is shown how a generalizable analytical hierarchy technique based on Saaty's systems-with-feedback approach, also known as the analytical network process (ANP), can be applied, as an alternative methodology, to SBC's quantitative model for performance measurement system.

TL;DR: This research extends and improves the use of genetic algorithms by creating a hybrid genetic algorithm that may be useful in solving the larger problems of dynamic plant layout problem.

TL;DR: In this article, the DEA model of efficiency measurement is examined from an economic viewpoint and it is shown that the presence of indivisibilities in all multi-stage production processes makes the technology structure non-convex, and therefore, the standard convex DEA production models (e.g., CCR and BCC) fail to exhibit increasing returns due to indiviibilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered a reverse logistics system with two stores and a constant delay between the using and return process, where the returned products are collected in the second store and then remanufactured or disposed.