International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2026

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 30-31, issue 1, 1993

Strategic and operational issues in production economics pp. 1-2

Robert W. Grubbstrom and Hans H. Hinterhuber

Production control in engineer-to-order firms pp. 3-22

J. W. M. Bertrand and D. R. Muntslag

The influence of central government's policy on production and the inventory in a spatial oligopoly pp. 23-30

Marija Bogataj and Ludvik Bogataj

Capacity smoothing and sequencing for mixed-model lines pp. 31-42

Maria Decker

Simulation of pull type manufacturing system for evaluating maintenance planning pp. 43-52

Semra Durmusoglu

Integrating marketing and production planning in make-to-order companies pp. 53-66

Brian Kingsman, Lee Worden, Linda Hendry, Alan Mercer and Elaine Wilson

Manufacturing flexibility and profitability pp. 67-78

Jan Olhager

Feedback production planning in a stochastic two-machine flowshop: Asymptotic analysis and computational results pp. 79-93

Suresh Sethi, Houmin Yan, Zhang Qing and Xun Yu Zhou

Manpower capacity planning -- A hierarchical approach pp. 95-106

Bernhard Wild and Christoph Schneewei

Production Planning and Control (PPC) systems including load-oriented order release -- Problems and research perspectives pp. 107-122

G. Zapfel and H. Missbauer

Process planning for a modular component placement system pp. 123-135

W. H. M. Zijm and A. van Harten

Capacitated lot-sizing with minimum batch sizes and setup times pp. 137-152

Edward J. Anderson and Boon Soon Cheah

Initial order quantities in a multistage production system with backlogging pp. 153-166

Robert W. Grubbstrom and Huiping Ding

Measuring and improving planning stability of reorder-point lot-sizing policies pp. 167-178

Thomas Jensen

Optimal and approximate (Q, r) inventory policies with lost sales and gamma-distributed lead time pp. 179-194

Soren Glud Johansen and Anders Thorstenson

A theoretical framework for understanding why JIT reduces cost and cycle time and improves quality pp. 195-204

John Miltenburg

Different evaluations of `criticity' in production processes pp. 205-212

Luigi Poiaga

A capacitated single-item lot-size model pp. 213-219

Kaj Rosling

Heterogeneous batch structures in throughput scheduling pp. 221-227

P. J. Weeda

Industrial conversion to natural gas--An efficient and risk neutral strategy? pp. 229-242

Berndt Andersson and Ted Lindblom

The challenges of capacity planning pp. 243-264

Nils Arne Bakke and Roland Hellberg

Engineering design and product development and its relationship to manufacturing: A programme of case study research in British companies pp. 265-272

P. M. Braiden, N. Alderman and A. T. Thwaites

Manufacturing practice in a transition economy pp. 273-280

Attila Chikan and Krisztina Demeter

Integrated performance measurement: A review of current practice and emerging trends pp. 281-296

M. J. Gregory

What makes a strategist out of a manager? What engineers should know about strategic management pp. 297-307

Hans H. Hinterhuber and Wolfgang Popp

Design of the decision process for strategic investment in advanced manufacturing systems pp. 309-322

C. O'Brien and S. J. E. Smith

Operational technology transfer: Can we calculate the behavior costs? pp. 323-330

Shanthakumar Palaniswami and Ronald C. Bishop

The analytic hierarchy process based expert analysis of strategies and critical success factors of forest industries in Finland pp. 331-343

Markku Tuominen and Pentti Sierila

Progress on developing a framework for computer aided production management pp. 345-353

M. C. Bonney and M. A. Head

Architectural framework for the design of a simulation environment for decentralized production management pp. 355-364

Chr. Kruse, M. Zell and A. -W. Scheer

Decentralized production planning and design of a production management system based on an object-oriented architecture pp. 365-383

M. Rohloff

Quality of services "applicable to production?" pp. 385-397

C. P. M. Govers

Improving service quality: Learning from manufacturing pp. 399-413

Robert N. Mefford

Inventory control and quality system requirements--a case study pp. 415-425

Urpo Moisio and Veli-Matti Virolainen

Analysis of the conversion from a job shop system to a cellular manufacturing system pp. 427-436

M. Bulent Durmusoglu

Using a knowledge-based decision support system development environment to implement a scheduling system for a workshop pp. 437-451

Michel Klein, Catherine Lecomte and Pierre Dejax

An expert system for a local planning environment pp. 453-464

G. J. Meester

The appraisal of industrial investments: A new method and a case study pp. 465-476

Paolo Gallo and Lorenzo Peccati

Post-implementation reviews of investment: Evidence from a two-stage study pp. 477-488

Eleanor J. Morgan and Yan Ling Tang

An integrated approach to the layout of flexible transfer lines (FTLs): Buffer stocks allocation pp. 489-499

Layek Abdel-Malek and Chi Tang

Determining the number of spares in an inventory/repair system which supports equipment with scheduled usage pp. 501-518

Michael S. Bridgman and Clark A. Mount-Campbell

The economic lot size and relevant costs pp. 519-530

Michael Corbey and Rutger Jansen

Determining economic inventory policies in a multi-stage just-in-time production system pp. 531-542

A. Gunasekaran, S. K. Goyal, T. Martikainen and P. Yli-Olli

Inventory control of repairable tools with incomplete information pp. 543-550

Thomas Hamann and Jean-Marie Proth

Reducing system nervousness in multi-product inventory systems pp. 551-562

Erik van der Sluis

Global relations between inventory, manufacturing lead time and delivery date promises pp. 563-569

Gyula Vastag and D. Clay Whybark

Freight rates for small shipments pp. 571-577

F. J. Arcelus and J. E. Rowcroft

Scheduling of packaging lines in the process industry: An empirical investigation pp. 579-589

Peter van Dam, Gerard Gaalman and Gerard Sierksma

A practical solution to a newspaper distribution problem pp. 591-599

R. J. Mantel and M. Fontein

Volume 294, issue C, 2026

Towards sustainable development: ESG incentive effect of China's Intelligent Manufacturing Pilot Demonstration Policy

Shuangcheng Luo, Qi Kang, Qiulan Qian, Jie Cheng and Zhiqiao Xiong

Exploring the impact of blockchain technology adoption on sustainable supply chain performance

Fakhar Shahzad, Younes Ben Zaied, Qingyu Zhang and Ming-Lang Tseng

The impact of design rework on engineer-to-order lead-time dynamics

Yuxuan Zhou, Mohamed Naim, Jonathan Gosling and Xun Wang

The impact of global value chain embeddedness on decarbonization in sunset industries

Xiongfeng Pan, Cong Zhen, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Shivam Gupta, Imran Ali and Malin Song

Industry 4.0 digital technologies and international performance: The role of family management in Italian firms

Paolo Neirotti, Andrea Ricci and Matteo Tubiana

Performance measures of industrial symbiosis with inventory

Vito Albino, Luca Fraccascia and Devrim Murat Yazan

Enhancing intellectual property identification and valuation in manufacturing through digital twins

Marcos Eduardo Kauffman, Marcelo Negri Soares, Tengfei Long, Lara Harris, Jarbas Rodrigues Gomes Cugula, Welington Junior Jorge Mazato and Kathy Zhang

Blockchain-enabled predictive digital twin approach for healthcare: Enhancing accuracy and performance with federated learning

Marco Repetto, Cinzia Colapinto, Raja Jayaraman, Francesco Appio and Davide La Torre

Coordination of a dual-channel e-commerce platform supply chain with fairness concerns and financial constraints

Xiaohu Qian, Min Huang, Mingqiang Yin, Jiahua Zhang and Yunxia Li

Loss leader strategy in the live streaming considering cross-product and cross-channel spillover effects

Jia Song, Yiting He and Yongrui Duan

Dual-fairness optimization for supply chain profit and emissions reduction distribution under carbon cap-sharing mechanism

Chang Lyu and Songsong Liu

A data-driven Component Risk Matrix to assess supply chain disruption risk

Thomas De Backker, Anouck Vercammen and Robert Boute

Online platform-based reverse logistics network design for mobile phones with resilience capability: Stochastic programming and Benders decomposition

Yong Liu, Weidong Chen and Junyuan Qiu

Unveiling dynamics in agricultural supply chain: A transformer-enhanced framework for commodity price modeling

Zelong Yi, Zhuomin Liang, Tongtong Xie, Yelin Fu and Yun Liu

Product line design in the presence of generative AI technology

Yu Jiang and Wei Lu

Managers' perception of supply chain risk and total factor productivity of enterprises: Opportunity-seeking or loss-aversive?

Zhaohui Zhu, Longchao Huang and Wensheng Huang

Impact of carbon quota allocation on outsourced remanufacturing supply chain: Designing a coordination mechanism

Xiqiang Xia, Jun Chen and Kannan Govindan

Unfolding AI’s strategic role in humanitarian supply chains: A fuzzy cognitive model aligned with SCOR-oriented performance and policy roadmapping

Behzad Masoomi, Maryam Radman and Majid Rafiee

Spatial evolution and influencing factors of new retail supply chain networks: Freshippo case study

Ershen Zhang, Guoen Wang, Pengliang Hu and Yajuan Zhou

Supply chain structure and blockchain deployment strategies in competing supply chains

Tingting Wang, Shan Chang, Guoping Hu and Victor Shi

From networked control systems to supply chain cyber-security: A redundant channel approach for FDIA mitigation

Yi Yang

Decision models for on-premises parcel lockers service revenue management

Seyed Sina Mohri, Hadi Ghaderi, Reza Zanjirani Farahani, Neema Nassir and Russell G. Thompson

The impact of financialization on firm resilience: A supply chain perspective

Yinan Qi and Fei Liu

Return policy selection and blockchain technology adoption decision in a supply chain with quality information disclosure

Haijiao Li, Ye Yao and Guoqing Zhang

Effect of BOPS implementation for omnichannel retailing with contingent free shipping policy

Ning Li