Production and Inventory Management with Substitutions

• Main Author: Lang, J. Christian. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 636
• Subjects: Economics.; Operations research.; Business logistics.; Economics/Management Science.; Production/Logistics.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Mathematical Programming.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04247-8

This book addresses production and inventory management problems where products can be replaced by specified substitutes. Depending on the considered application, substitutions can potentially improve the service level, reduce required safety stocks and total setup costs and times, utilize cost vari...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Production and Operations Management: Models and Algorithms
• Graphical Modeling of Substitutions and Flexible Bills-of-Materials
• Literature Review
• Efficient Reformulations for Uncapacitated and Capacitated Lot-Sizing with Substitutions and Initital Inventories
• MIP-Based Heuristics for Capacitated Lot-Sizing with Sequence-Dependent Setups and Substitutions.-Multi-Level Lot-Sizing with Flexible Bills-of-Materials
• Blood Bank Inventory Control with Transshipments and Substitutions
• Conclusions and Future Reseach.