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Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory theory

Financial flows are often treated in a fragmented and disconnected way from the physical product flow. Managers take decisions from an operational point of view concerning inventory, service level or capacity needs. The implementation of such decisions inf ...

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Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements in Inventory Control

Ralf Seifert

Financial supply chain management and working capital management are increasingly receiving attention as important avenues to increase profitability in supply chains. By actively managing payment terms and working capital requirements, managers can influen ...

2008

Satisfying Customer Preferences via Mass Customization and Mass Production

Ralf Seifert

Two operational formats namely mass customization and mass production can be implemented to satisfy customer preference-based demand. The mass customization system consists of two stages: the initial build-to-stock phase and the final customize-to-order ph ...

2006

Disassembly scheduling

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This dissertation focuses on disassembly scheduling, which is the problem of determining the quantity and timing of disassembling used or end-of-life products while satisfying the demand of their parts/components over a given planning horizon. The objectiv ...

EPFL2005

Dynamic scheduling for production systems operating in a random environment

Fabrice Dusonchet

Due to the steady tendency to propose highly customized products and to respond to volatile (i.e random) demands, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) are now present in most shopfloors. In this thesis, flexibility in a FMS is understood as the ability of ...

EPFL2003

Sustainable Development Based Methodology for the Optimized Integrated Design and Operation of Energy Conversion Processes and Networks.

Daniel Favrat

A design methodology allowing engineers to consider simultaneously and from the earliest phases of design some of the key factors of sustainable development (pollution, life cycle data) has been developed and successfully demonstrated on two examples of in ...

1999

Optimal reordering policies for the AHM inventory model with two supply modes

Thomas Liebling

We characterize the optimal reordering policies for the stationary periodic review AHM inventory model when there is a quick and a -generally cheaper- slow supplier, whose delivery lags differ by one period and whose fixed and unit ordering costs are arbit ...

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