Publications related to Inventory theory

Industry 4.0 Technologies and Customer-centricity for Digital Supply Chains

Rachel Agnès Laetitia Rosemonde Marie Lacroix

The last few years have experienced the emergence of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), ultra-customization, and the explosion of demand for ethical, fair trade, and sustainable consumption. Organizations have therefore started a digital transformation of their SCs and ...

EPFL2021

Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas, Argyro Katsifou

Assortment planning deserves much attention from practitioners and academics due to its direct impact on retailers' commercial success. In this paper we focus on the increasingly popular retail practice to use combined product assortments with both "standa ...

2020

Bayesian regression explains how human participants handle parameter uncertainty

Michael Herzog, Jean-Pascal Théodor Pfister, Maya Anna Jastrzebowska, Mattew Pachai

Author summary How do humans make prediction when the critical factor that influences the quality of the prediction is hidden? Here, we address this question by conducting a simple psychophysical experiment in which participants had to extrapolate a parabo ...

2020

Optimization of sample size and order size in an inventory model with quality inspection and return of defective items

Rafael Batista, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou

To ensure all products as perfect, inspection is essential, even though it is not possible to inspect all products after producing them like some special type products as plastic joint for the water pipe. In this direction, this paper develops an inventory ...

SPRINGER2018

A test of inventory models with permissible delay in payment

Ralf Seifert, Olov Isaksson, Daniel Seifert

Contrary to the long-standing view in the finance literature that firms should maximise payment delays, research in operations management suggests that long payment delays can be suboptimal. In this study, we reconcile these two views by applying a seconda ...

2017

A pilot study on eliciting human operations decision in purchasing and measuring their impact on supply chain efficiency

Rémy Glardon, Souleïman Naciri, Min-Jung Yoo, Yvonne Badulescu

This paper presents a methodology for eliciting the behavioural model of purchasers' decision-making in a supply chain environment. The objective of the work is to explicitly describe the relationship between a human user's behaviour and the resulting perf ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Supply Chain Disruption Risk Management

Florian Christopher Matthias Lücker

It is well established that firms are exposed to the risk of supply chain disruptions. Many firms build risk mitigation strategies in order to increase the resilience of their supply chains. In this dissertation we present three essays that study operation ...

EPFL2016

The Impact of Uncertainty in National Energy Planning

Michel Bierlaire, François Maréchal, Stefano Moret, Victor Codina Gironès

Concerns related to climate change and security of energy supply are pushing various countries to define strategic energy plans. Strategic energy planning for national energy systems involves investment decisions (selection and sizing) for energy conversio ...

2016

On the role of trust types and levels on inventory replenishment decision

Rémy Glardon, Amin Kaboli, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Maryam Darvish

Using a participatory simulation platform, this paper investigates the inventory replenishment decisions made under different trust categories. Depending on the type of trust (trust in supplier versus trust in customer) and level of trust (high versus low) ...

2014

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Inventory theory

Optimizing Sales Forecasting, Inventory, Pricing and Sourcing Decisions

Industry 4.0 Technologies and Customer-centricity for Digital Supply Chains

Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Bayesian regression explains how human participants handle parameter uncertainty

Optimization of sample size and order size in an inventory model with quality inspection and return of defective items

A test of inventory models with permissible delay in payment

A pilot study on eliciting human operations decision in purchasing and measuring their impact on supply chain efficiency

Supply Chain Disruption Risk Management

The Impact of Uncertainty in National Energy Planning

On the role of trust types and levels on inventory replenishment decision

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Optimizing Sales Forecasting, Inventory, Pricing and Sourcing Decisions

Industry 4.0 Technologies and Customer-centricity for Digital Supply Chains

Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Bayesian regression explains how human participants handle parameter uncertainty

Optimization of sample size and order size in an inventory model with quality inspection and return of defective items

A test of inventory models with permissible delay in payment

A pilot study on eliciting human operations decision in purchasing and measuring their impact on supply chain efficiency

The Impact of Uncertainty in National Energy Planning

Supply Chain Disruption Risk Management

On the role of trust types and levels on inventory replenishment decision