International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2025

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

From Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

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 285, issue C, 2025

Performance-based contract price negotiation with maintenance policies and limited resource allocation based on queueing and game theory

Canek Jackson, Rodrigo Pascual and Fredy Kristjanpoller

Food waste in the era of e-commerce: A novel farm-to-fork management methodology

Ahmed Mohammed, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Nasiru Zubairu, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour and Hajer Al Naabi

Sustainable development of PV projects based on a text-analytic decision-making framework

Xiaoyu Ma and Chunguang Bai

Dynamic analysis of the proportional order-up-to policy with damped trend forecasts

Qinyun Li, Gerard Gaalman and Stephen M. Disney

Unlocking the value in product return data: Inventory management with sales dependent stochastic product return flows from multiple periods

Esra Gökbayrak, Enis Kayış and Refik Güllü

Impact of cost structure and cannibalisation on live streaming pricing strategies

Le Wang, Li Zhou, Hing Kai Chan and Tijun Fan

Towards sustainable futures: Rethinking supplier selection through interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy decision-making

Sepehr Hendiani and Grit Walther

Investigating the impact of strategic warehouse design and product clustering on supply chain viability: A unified robust stochastic programming approach

Ömer Faruk Yılmaz, Beren Gürsoy Yılmaz, Fatma Betül Yeni and Alperen Bal

Robust two-stage optimisation in biomass supply chains

Péter Egri and Tamás Kis

Internal reductions or carbon offset: How to achieve triple benefits in a consumer market with environmental concerns

Xue Wang, Deqing Ma, Jinsong Hu and Yun Liu

A divergent two-echelon spare part inventory system with lost sales and compound Poisson demand

Chaaben Kouki, Lama Moussawi-Haidar and Mohamad Y. Jaber

Bridging uncertainty: A data-driven DRO approach for correcting censored demand in newsvendor problems

Xiaoli Su, Zhe Yuan, Chenghu Yang, Evren Sahin and Jie Xiong

Dynamic rebalancing strategies for dockless bike-sharing systems

Ruicheng Liu, Jianyu Xu, Çağatay Iris and Jianghang Chen

Orchestrating governance reconfiguration of inter-organizational project networks to address coordination failures

Ilias Krystallis, Jas Kalra and Giorgio Locatelli

Can sustainable supply chain sustain supplier's operational efficiency?

Cherry Yi Zhang, Jinyan Ji and Tiantian Zhang

Energy-efficient optimization of multi-echelon inventory systems

Hong-Nguyen Nguyen, Matthieu Godichaud and Lionel Amodeo

Dynamic product quality improvement using social media data and competitor-based Kano model

Lu Zheng, Lin Sun, Zhen He and Shuguang He

The intelligent production line configuration strategy

Qiguo Gong, Yanyu Zhang, Guohui Chen and Hui Wang

Spillover of bad publicity: Effect of negative ESG coverage in supply chains on firm performance

Li Wang, Yuxiao Ye and Baofeng Huo

How do circular economy and blockchain technology adoption relate to firm financial performance?

Lihua Sun, Chunguang Bai and Joseph Sarkis