International Journal of Production Economics

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Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

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Volume 93-94, issue 1, 2005

Preface pp. xiii-xiii

Attila Chikan

Evaluation of two simple extreme transshipment strategies pp. 1-11

Stefan Minner and Edward A. Silver

Trend breaks in US inventory to sales ratios pp. 13-23

F. Owen Irvine

Comparing CONWIP, synchronized CONWIP, and Kanban in complex supply chains pp. 25-40

Katsuhiko Takahashi, Myreshka and Daisuke Hirotani

The role of ERP tools in supply chain information sharing, cooperation, and cost optimization pp. 41-52

Peter Kelle and Asli Akbulut

A simple decision rule for decentralized two-echelon inventory control pp. 53-59

Sven Axsater

Macroeconomic characteristics and inventory investment: a multi-country study pp. 61-73

Attila Chikan, Erzsébet Kovács and Tunde Tatrai

Inventory investment and output volatility pp. 75-86

F. Owen Irvine and Scott Schuh

Measuring the convexity of the cost function pp. 87-99

Moheb Ghali

An alternative estimate of real inventory change for national economic accounts pp. 101-110

Christian Ehemann

Optimal inventory policies when sales are discretionary pp. 111-119

Herbert Scarf

Logistics customer service levels in Poland:: Changes between 1993 and 2001 pp. 121-128

Danuta Kisperska-Moron

Inventory management: Is there a knock-on effect? pp. 129-138

Gyula Vastag and D. Clay Whybark

The role of C-products in providing customer service--refining the inventory policy according to customer-specific factors pp. 139-149

Janne Huiskonen, Petri Niemi and Timo Pirttila

The relationship between UK manufacturers' inventory levels and supply, internal and market factors pp. 151-160

Adegoke Oke and Marek Szwejczewski

Motives behind purchasing consortia pp. 161-168

Eija Tella and Veli-Matti Virolainen

Cost-parametric analysis of lateral transshipment policies in two-echelon supply chains pp. 169-178

Jonathan Burton and Avijit Banerjee

Controlling inventories in a supply chain: A case study pp. 179-188

Eric Porras Musalem and Rommert Dekker

Concurrent pricing and lot sizing for make-to-order contract production pp. 189-195

Avijit Banerjee

Model and analysis of integrated production-inventory system: The case of steel production pp. 197-205

Simone Zanoni and Lucio Zavanella

Logistics in Bulgarian manufacturing companies pp. 207-215

Pavel Dimitrov

Worst-case analysis of the full load policy in the single link problem pp. 217-224

Luca Bertazzi and Maria Grazia Speranza

Production planning: An improved hybrid approach pp. 225-229

M.D. Byrne and Md Saddam Hossain

Order allocation in a multiple-supplier environment pp. 231-238

Ruengsak Kawtummachai and Nguyen Van Hop

Advanced available-to-promise: Classification, selected methods and requirements for operations and inventory management pp. 239-252

Richard Pibernik

Inventory management in supply chains: A bargaining problem pp. 253-262

Eric Sucky

Management control and the production environment: A review pp. 263-272

Paula van Veen-Dirks

The complex relationship between inventory control and organisational setting: Theory and practice pp. 273-284

Jan de Vries

Considering stochastic lead times in a manufacturing/remanufacturing system with deterministic demands and returns pp. 285-300

Ou Tang and Robert W. Grubbstrom

The effects of emission trading on production and inventories in the Arrow-Karlin model pp. 301-308

Imre Dobos

Stocking decisions for repairable spare parts pooling in a multi-hub system pp. 309-317

Hartanto Wong, Dirk Cattrysse and Dirk Van Oudheusden

Timing production in LP models in a rolling schedule pp. 319-329

J.M. Spitter, A.G. de Kok and N.P. Dellaert

Eliminating drift in inventory and order based production control systems pp. 331-344

S.M. Disney and D.R. Towill

Stability of perishable goods in cold logistic chains pp. 345-356

Marija Bogataj, Ludvik Bogataj and Robert Vodopivec

Turnpike policies for periodic review inventory model with emergency orders pp. 357-373

Stanislaw Bylka

Lot sizes in a capacity constrained facility--a simulation study of stationary stochastic demand pp. 375-386

Par Brander, Erik Leven and Anders Segerstedt

Integrated inventory models with controllable lead time and backorder discount considerations pp. 387-397

Jason Chao-Hsien Pan and Yu-Cheng Hsiao

Replenish-up-to inventory control policy with random replenishment intervals pp. 399-405

Kadir Ertogral and M.A. Rahim

Integer-ratio policies for distribution/inventory systems pp. 407-415

B. Abdul-Jalbar, J. Gutierrez and J. Sicilia

The hotel yield management with two types of room prices, overbooking and cancellations pp. 417-428

Takeshi Koide and Hiroaki Ishii

Base-stock policies for the lost sales inventory system with Poisson demand and Erlangian lead times pp. 429-437

Soren Glud Johansen

A discounted cash flow approach to the base stock inventory model pp. 439-445

R.M. Hill and T.P.M. Pakkala

A continuous production-inventory problem with regeneration cycles pp. 447-454

Ryszarda Rempala

Sensitivity results considering rescheduling by AND/OR graphs pp. 455-464

Dusan Hvalica and Ludvik Bogataj

The distribution-free newsboy problem: Extensions to the shortage penalty case pp. 465-477

Hesham K. Alfares and Hassan H. Elmorra

The impact of aggregation level on forecasting performance pp. 479-491

Giulio Zotteri, Matteo Kalchschmidt and Federico Caniato

Fuzzy approach to the spatial games in the total market area pp. 493-503

Marija Bogataj and Janez Usenik

Simulation-based optimisation of multi-echelon inventory systems pp. 505-513

P. Kochel and U. Nielander

Volume 81-82, issue 1, 2003

Preface pp. xi-xi

Professor Attila Chikan

Storage capacity and water use in the 21 water-resource regions of the United States geological survey pp. 1-12

Andrew Stern

Developments in global inventory investment pp. 13-26

Attila Chikan and Tunde Tatrai

Long term trends in US inventory to sales ratios pp. 27-39

F. Owen Irvine

Problems with using traditional aggregate inventory to sales ratios pp. 41-50

F. Owen Irvine

Operations manager turnover and inventory fluctuations pp. 51-58

José Alfaro and Josep Tribó

Optimal lot size, inventories, prices and JIT under monopolistic competition pp. 59-66

Michael Lovell

Production-planning horizon, production smoothing, and convexity of the cost functions pp. 67-74

Moheb A. Ghali

Inventory changes and the closing of macroeconometric models pp. 75-84

Riccardo Fiorito

You may not use inventory levels to fill orders if...: Evidence from a survey of UK manufacturing plants pp. 85-94

Adegoke Oke

Agility and mixed-model furniture production pp. 95-102

Andrew C. Yao and John G. H. Carlson

A simulation study of lateral shipments in single supplier, multiple buyers supply chain networks pp. 103-114

Avijit Banerjee, Jonathan Burton and Snehamay Banerjee

Is anybody listening? An investigation into popular advice and actual practices pp. 115-128

Gyula Vastag and D. Clay Whybark

Responsibilities for inventory decisions in Polish manufacturing companies pp. 129-139

Danuta Kisperska-Moron

Firm performance under just-in-time and traditional proxies for profit maximization pp. 141-152

David Bivin

Retailer's pricing, credit and inventory policies for deteriorating items in response to temporary price/credit incentives pp. 153-162

F. J. Arcelus, Nita H. Shah and G. Srinivasan

Overage inventory--how does it occur and why is it important? pp. 163-171

Geoff Relph and Peter Barrar

An organizational perspective on inventory control: Theory and a case study pp. 173-183

Leonieke G. Zomerdijk and Jan de Vries

Flows of goods or supply chains; lessons from the natural rubber industry in Kerala, India pp. 185-194

Job de Haan, Gerard de Groot, Egon Loo and Mark Ypenburg

Cross-functional decision-making in improving inventory management decision procedures pp. 195-203

Kirsi Korhonen and Timo Pirttila

The consignment stock of inventories: industrial case and performance analysis pp. 215-224

Giovanni Valentini and Lucio Zavanella

Modelling product returns in inventory control--exploring the validity of general assumptions pp. 225-241

Marisa de Brito and Rommert Dekker

The changing relationship between production and inventory examined in a concurrent engineering context pp. 243-254

Maurice Bonney, Svetan Ratchev and Idir Moualek

An approach to link customer characteristics to inventory decision making pp. 255-264

Janne Huiskonen, Petri Niemi and Timo Pirttila

Multiple-supplier inventory models in supply chain management: A review pp. 265-279

Stefan Minner

Policies for inventory/distribution systems: The effect of centralization vs. decentralization pp. 281-293

B. Abdul-Jalbar, J. Gutierrez, J. Puerto and J. Sicilia

Properties of lot-sizing rules under lumpy demand pp. 295-307

I. Nyoman Pujawan and Brian G. Kingsman

Inventory control and investment policy pp. 309-316

E. V. Bulinskaya

An NPV and AC analysis of a stochastic inventory system with joint manufacturing and remanufacturing pp. 317-331

Erwin van der Laan

Optimal control of a one product recovery system with leadtimes pp. 333-340

G. P. Kiesmuller

Transaction costs in finance and inventory research pp. 341-350

Hans-Joachim Girlich

Optimal production-inventory strategies for a HMMS-type reverse logistics system pp. 351-360

Imre Dobos

How far should JIT vendor-buyer relationships go? pp. 361-368

Israel David and Moshe Eben-Chaime

The market-oriented dynamic product recovery model in the just-in-time framework pp. 369-374

Knut Richter and Barbara Gobsch

VaR as a risk measure for multiperiod static inventory models pp. 375-384

Elisa Luciano, Lorenzo Peccati and Donato M. Cifarelli

Rounding off the optimal solution of the economic lot size problem pp. 385-392

Luca Bertazzi

The maximin criterion as an alternative to the expected value in the replanning issues pp. 393-396

Ludvik Bogataj and Dusan Hvalica

Inventory management in a multi-echelon spare parts supply chain pp. 397-413

Matteo Kalchschmidt, Giulio Zotteri and Roberto Verganti

The detailed coordination problem in a two-level assembly system with stochastic lead times pp. 415-429

Ou Tang and Robert W. Grubbstrom

Partnership and negotiation support by joint optimal ordering/setup policies for JIT pp. 431-441

Peter Kelle, Faisal Al-khateeb and Pam Anders Miller

Optimal control of a distributed service system with moving resources: Application to the fleet sizing and allocation problem pp. 443-459

Peter Kochel, Sophie Kunze and Ulf Nielander

Restricted time-remembering policies for the inventory rationing problem pp. 461-468

Philip Melchiors

Economic lot scheduling on multiple production lines with resource constraints pp. 469-481

Raffaele Pesenti and Walter Ukovich

A stochastic model of multi-level/multi-stage capacity-constrained production-inventory systems pp. 483-494

Robert W. Grubbstrom and Zhiping Wang

Joint replenishment multiproduct inventory problem with continuous production and discrete demands pp. 495-511

Ryszarda Rempala

A stochastic inventory model of dual sourced supply chain with lead-time reduction pp. 513-524

Si Wook Ryu and Kyung Keun Lee

Optimal stopping and restarting production times for an EOQ model with deteriorating items and time-dependent partial backlogging pp. 525-531

K. Skouri and S. Papachristos

Competitive and cooperative policies for the vendor-buyer system pp. 533-544

Stanislaw Bylka

Approximate optimization of a two-level distribution inventory system pp. 545-553

Sven Axsater

A model of crop planning under uncertainty in agricultural management pp. 555-558

Takeshi Itoh, Hiroaki Ishii and Teruaki Nanseki

Minimum number of warehouses for storing simultaneously compatible products pp. 559-564

Ria Kalfakakou, Stefanos Katsavounis and Kostas Tsouros

A model for evaluating supplier-owned inventory strategy pp. 565-571

Rajesh Piplani and S. Viswanathan

Capacitated two-indenture models for repairable item systems pp. 573-588

W. Henk Zijm and Zeynep Muge Avsar

Prediction of the demand of the railway sleepers: A simulation model for replacement strategies pp. 589-595

Won Young Yun and Luis Ferreira

A model to evaluate inventory costs in a remanufacturing environment pp. 597-607

Z. Pelin Bayindir, Nesim Erkip and Refik Gullu

Manufacturing strategy and competitiveness pp. 2015-213

Krisztina Demeter