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Limiting the impact of supply chain disruptions in the face of distributional uncertainty in demand

Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas, René Yves Glogg

Service-level requirements play a crucial role in eliminating stock-outs in a production pipeline. However, delivering a specific service level can become an unattainable goal given the various uncertainties influencing both the production pipeline and cus ...

WILEY2022

Manufacturing Management in Process Industries: The Impact of Market Conditions and Capital Expenditure on Firm Performance

Ralf Seifert, Olov Isaksson, Philipp Urs Moser

2021

Benefiting from additive manufacturing for mass customization across the product life cycle

Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas, Rachel Agnès Laetitia Rosemonde Marie Lacroix

Additive manufacturing (AM) was initially designed for prototyping and product personalization, where high production quantities were not required. Now, it is also implemented for final part production to achieve cost-effective mass customization (MC). Tha ...

ELSEVIER2021

Mitigating Product Shortage Due to Disruptions in Multi-Stage Supply Chains

Ralf Seifert

We focus on the optimal use of risk mitigation inventory (RMI) and reserve capacity to manage disruption risk in serial multi-stage supply chains where product transformation occurs at each stage. We find that under reasonable conditions it is better to ho ...

2020

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

Optimal replenishment cycle for perishable items facing demand uncertainty in a two-echelon inventory system

Ralf Seifert, Mervegül Kirci

2018

Roles of inventory and reserve capacity in mitigating supply chain disruption risk

Ralf Seifert, Florian Christopher Matthias Lücker

2018

Optimal Dynamic Order Scheduling Under Capacity Constraints Given Demand-forecast Evolution

Ralf Seifert, Isik Bicer

2017

Inventory dynamics in process industries: An empirical investigation

Ralf Seifert, Philipp Urs Moser, Olov Isaksson

Process industry firms have thrived in recent decades, but changes in the markets are currently putting both growth and profitability at risk. In this context, inventory management is increasingly viewed as an essential lever for creating a sustainable com ...

Elsevier2017

Benefits of working capital sharing in supply chains

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

Supply chain finance and working capital management are important avenues to reduce supply chain costs. Small suppliers may not have sufficient working capital to finance their operations and efficiently supply their customers. We develop a model that capt ...

Palgrave Macmillan2017

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Manufacturing Management in Process Industries: The Impact of Market Conditions and Capital Expenditure on Firm Performance

Ralf Seifert, Olov Isaksson, Philipp Urs Moser

2021