International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2025

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

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Volume 132, issue 2, 2011

Lockout/tagout and operational risks in the production control of manufacturing systems with passive redundancy pp. 165-173

Behnam Emami-Mehrgani, Sylvie Nadeau and Jean-Pierre Kenné

Inventory investment and production in Europe during the "Great Recession": Is there a pattern? pp. 174-177

Yngve Abrahamsen and Jochen Hartwig

Managing carbon footprints in inventory management pp. 178-185

Guowei Hua, T.C.E. Cheng and Shouyang Wang

Knowledge sharing and strategic fit in integrated product development proejcts: An empirical study pp. 186-196

Paul Hong, William J. Doll, Elena Revilla and Abraham Y. Nahm

Critical success factors for the sustainability of Kaizen event human resource outcomes: An empirical study pp. 197-213

Wiljeana J. Glover, Jennifer A. Farris, Eileen M. Van Aken and Toni L. Doolen

Product selection for newsboy-type products with normal demands and unequal costs pp. 214-222

Rung Hung Su and Wen Lea Pearn

Supply chain scheduling and coordination with dual delivery modes and inventory storage cost pp. 223-229

Wing-Kwan Yeung, Tsan-Ming Choi and T.C.E. Cheng

Streamlining inventory flows with time discounts to improve the profits of a decentralized supply chain pp. 230-239

Qinan Wang, Yiowmin Chay and Zhang Wu

A decision method for supplier selection in multi-service outsourcing pp. 240-250

Bo Feng, Zhi-Ping Fan and Yanzhi Li

Productivity and efficiency with discrete variables and quadratic cost function pp. 251-257

Eduardo Martinez-Budria, Juan Jose Diaz-Hernandez and Sergio Jara-Däaz

Fuzzy logic in manufacturing: A review of literature and a specialized application pp. 258-270

Arash Azadegan, Lejla Porobic, Sepehr Ghazinoory, Parvaneh Samouei and Amir Saman Kheirkhah

Retailer policy, uncertainty reduction, and supply chain performance pp. 271-278

Jin Kyung Kwak and Srinagesh Gavirneni

Robust and stable flexible job shop scheduling with random machine breakdowns using a hybrid genetic algorithm pp. 279-291

Nasr Al-Hinai and T.Y. ElMekkawy

A unified solution approach for the due date assignment problem with tardy jobs pp. 292-295

Christos Koulamas

A master production scheduling procedure for stochastic demand and rolling planning horizons pp. 296-302

Vicente Vargas and Richard Metters

A new SPRT chart for monitoring process mean and variance pp. 303-314

Yanjing Ou, Zhang Wu and Thong Ngee Goh

A stochastic shift model for economically designed charts constrained by the process stage configuration pp. 315-325

Giovanni Celano, Maysa S. De Magalhães, Antonio F.B. Costa and Sergio Fichera

Erratum to "An optimal integrated vendor-buyer inventory policy under conditions of order-processing time reduction and permissible delay in payments" C.-K. Huang, D.-M. Tsai, J.-C. Wu, K.-J. Chung, 2010 [Int. J. Prod. Econ. 128 (2010) 445-451] pp. 326-326

Chun-Jen Chung

Erratum to "Wu, S., Longhurst, P., 2011. Optimising age-replacement and extended non-renewing warranty policies in lifecycle costing" [Int. J. Prod. Econ. 130 (2011) 262-267] pp. 327-327

Chun-Jen Chung

Corrigendum to "The effect of spatial variables on the economic and environmental performance of bioenergy production chains" [Int. J. Prod. Econ. 131 (2011) 224-233] pp. 328-328

Devrim Murat Yazan, A. Claudio Garavelli, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli and Vito Albino

Volume 132, issue 1, 2011

A review of the extensions of a modified EOQ model for imperfect quality items pp. 1-12

Muhammd Asghar Khan, M.Y. Jaber, A.L. Guiffrida and S. Zolfaghari

The impacts of country characteristics upon the value of information technology as measured by productive efficiency pp. 13-33

Winston T. Lin and Chung-Yean Chiang

Agglomeration and social return to R&D: Evidence from French plant productivity changes pp. 34-42

Corinne Autant-Bernard, Jean-Pascal Guironnet and Nadine Massard

A network approach to modeling the multi-echelon spare-part inventory system with backorders and interval-valued demand pp. 43-51

Eugene Levner, Yael Perlman, T.C.E. Cheng and Ilya Levner

Supplier selection-order allocation: A two-stage multiple criteria dynamic programming approach pp. 52-57

Fereshteh Mafakheri, Michele Breton and Ahmed Ghoniem

Assessing the relational benefits of logistics services perceived by manufacturers in supply chain pp. 58-67

Ling Li

A mechanism for external competence transfer to improve manufacturing system capabilities and market performance pp. 68-78

Ying Liao, Kun Liao, Qiang Tu and Mark Vonderembse

Plastic cars in China? The significance of production location over markets for technology competitiveness in the United States versus the People's Republic of China pp. 79-92

Erica R.H. Fuchs, Frank R. Field, Richard Roth and Randolph E. Kirchain

A methodology for optimal product positioning with engineering constraints consideration pp. 93-100

C.K. Kwong, X.G. Luo and J.F. Tang

A fuzzy random continuous review inventory system pp. 101-106

Oshmita Dey and Debjani Chakraborty

Heuristics for operational fixed job scheduling problems with working and spread time constraints pp. 107-121

Deniz Türsel Eliiyi and Meral Azizoglu

Multi-focused strategy in value co-creation with customers: Examining cumulative development pattern with new capabilities pp. 122-130

Xiang Zhang, Chen Ye, Rongqiu Chen and Zhao-Hua Wang

Reliability evaluation and adjustment of supply chain network design with demand fluctuations pp. 131-145

Chaug-Ing Hsu and Hui-Chieh Li

The component procurement problem for the loss-averse manufacturer with spot purchase pp. 146-153

Houcai Shen, Zhan Pang and T.C.E. Cheng

Sealed-bid auction of Netherlands mussels: Statistical analysis pp. 154-161

Jack Kleijnen and Frans D.J. van Schaik

Errata pp. 162-163

A. Amid, S.H. Ghodyspour and C. O'Brien

Volume 131, issue 2, 2011

Sheltering network planning and management with a case in the Gulf Coast region pp. 431-440

Lingfeng Li, Mingzhou Jin and Li Zhang

Assessing performance factors for a 3PL in a value chain pp. 441-452

Gulgun Kayakutlu and Gulcin Buyukozkan

Decentralizing decision making in modularization strategies: Overcoming barriers from dysfunctional accounting systems pp. 453-462

Poul Israelsen and Brian Jørgensen

Generalized single-vendor multi-buyer integrated inventory supply chain models with a better synchronization pp. 463-472

M.A. Hoque

Coordination of planning and scheduling decisions in global supply chains with dual supply modes pp. 473-482

Rohit Bhatnagar, Peeyush Mehta and Chee Chong Teo

Determining the optimal dimension of a work-in-process storage area pp. 483-489

Luca Bertazzi

Neural network application for fuzzy multi-criteria decision making problems pp. 490-504

Davood Golmohammadi

Product price and performance level in one market or two separated markets under various cost structures and functions pp. 505-518

Li Qian

Customer, regulatory, and competitive pressure as drivers of environmental innovation pp. 519-527

Baris Yalabik and Richard J. Fairchild

Closed-form solutions for Wee's and Martin's EOQ models with a temporary price discount pp. 528-534

Horng-Jinh Chang, Wen-Feng Lin and Jow-Fei Ho

Competition under capacitated dynamic lot-sizing with capacity acquisition pp. 535-544

Hongyan Li and Joern Meissner

Using value analysis to support knowledge transfer in the multi-project setting pp. 545-560

Marco Formentini and Pietro Romano

A dynamic model for the optimization of decoupling point and production planning in a supply chain pp. 561-567

In-Jae Jeong

The maximum capture per unit cost location problem pp. 568-574

Guowei Hua, T.C.E. Cheng and Shouyang Wang

Estimating the final priority ratings of engineering characteristics in mature-period product improvement by MDBA and AHP pp. 575-586

Yan-Lai Li, Jia-Fu Tang, Kwai-Sang Chin, Yu-Shi Jiang, Yi Han and Yun Pu

A holistic network model for supply chain analysis pp. 587-594

Mayukh Dass and Gavin L. Fox

Multi-item dynamic lot-sizing with delayed transportation policy pp. 595-603

Emre Sancak and F. Sibel Salman

Production planning and inventory allocation of a single-product assemble-to-order system with failure-prone machines pp. 604-617

T.C.E. Cheng, Chunyan Gao and Houcai Shen

New batch construction heuristics to optimise the performance of order picking systems pp. 618-630

Ling-Feng Hsieh and Yi-Chen Huang

A new approach for the economic design of fully adaptive control charts pp. 631-642

George Nenes

The deterministic EOQ and EPQ with partial backordering at a rate that is linearly dependent on the time to delivery pp. 643-649

Carl Toews, David W. Pentico and Matthew J. Drake

What are the best sample sizes for the Xbar and CUSUM charts? pp. 650-662

Zhang Wu, Mei Yang, Michael B.C. Khoo and Philippe Castagliola

An inventory and order admission control policy for production systems with two customer classes pp. 663-673

Stratos Ioannidis

Integrated production planning with sequence-dependent family setup times pp. 674-681

Guisen Xue, O. Felix Offodile, Hong Zhou and Marvin D. Troutt

Inter-temporal inventory competition and the effects of capacity constraints pp. 682-688

Konstantin Kogan and Charles Tapiero

The theory and practice of workload control: A research agenda and implementation strategy pp. 689-700

Mark Stevenson, Yuan Huang, Linda C. Hendry and Erik Soepenberg

Using least squares support vector machines for the airframe structures manufacturing cost estimation pp. 701-708

S. Deng and Tsung-Han Yeh

A class of chance constrained multiobjective linear programming with birandom coefficients and its application to vendors selection pp. 709-720

Jiuping Xu and Can Ding

Radial and non-radial decompositions of Luenberger productivity indicator with an illustrative application pp. 721-726

Bernhard Mahlberg and Biresh Sahoo

Optimization of a vendor managed inventory supply chain with guaranteed stability and robustness pp. 727-735

Darya Kastsian and Martin Mönnigmann

Assessing performance of utilizing organizational modularity to manage supply chains: Evidence in the US manufacturing sector pp. 736-746

Cheng, Liang-Chieh (Victor)

Scheduling deteriorating jobs with CON/SLK due date assignment on a single machine pp. 747-751

Shisheng Li, C.T. Ng and Jinjiang Yuan

Ship routing problem with berthing time clash avoidance constraints pp. 752-762

King-Wah Pang, Zhou Xu and Chung-Lun Li

Corrigendum to "The appropriateness of the poolability assumption for multiproduct technologies: Evidence from the English water and sewerage utilities" [Int. J. Prod. Econ. 130 (2011) 112-117] pp. 763-763

Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Massimiliano Piacenza and Davide Vannoni

Volume 131, issue 1, 2011

The decision support framework for developing Ecodesign at conceptual phase based upon ISO/TR 14062 pp. 4-14

Athakorn Kengpol and Prin Boonkanit

A marginal analysis guided technology evaluation and selection pp. 15-21

Kim Hua Tan, James Noble, Yuji Sato and Ying Kei Tse

The competition among mobile network operators in the telecommunication supply chain pp. 22-29

Livio Cricelli, Michele Grimaldi and Nathan Levialdi Ghiron

Factors influencing employee perceptions in lean transformations pp. 30-43

David Losonci, Krisztina Demeter and István Jenei

Green logistics at Eroski: A case study pp. 44-51

S. Ubeda, F.J. Arcelus and J. Faulin

Finite change comparative statics for risk-coherent inventories pp. 52-62

E. Borgonovo and L. Peccati

Exact and approximate calculation of the cycle service level in periodic review inventory policies pp. 63-68

Manuel Cardós and Eugenia Babiloni

Derivation of confidence intervals of service measures in a base-stock inventory control system with low-frequent demand pp. 69-75

Christian Larsen

Optimal time phasing and periodicity for MRP with POQ policy pp. 76-86

Mohamed-Aly Louly and Alexandre Dolgui

A heuristic for balancing the inventory level of different locations through lateral shipments pp. 87-95

Lorenzo Tiacci and Stefano Saetta

Financial and operational instruments for commodity procurement in quantity competition pp. 96-106

Jan Arnold and Stefan Minner

Analytical analysis of a generic assembly system pp. 107-114

Liesje De Boeck and Nico Vandaele

An economic production and remanufacturing model with learning effects pp. 115-127

Mohamad Y. Jaber and Ahmed M.A. El Saadany

Budget allocation for permanent and contingent capacity under stochastic demand pp. 128-138

Nico Dellaert, Jully Jeunet and Gergely Mincsovics

A weighted max-min model for fuzzy multi-objective supplier selection in a supply chain pp. 139-145

A. Amid, S.H. Ghodsypour and C. O'Brien

Multi-agent-based transport planning in the newspaper industry pp. 146-157

Dominik Böhnlein, Katharina Schweiger and Axel Tuma

Critical success factors of Six Sigma implementations in Italian companies pp. 158-164

Alessandro Brun

Machine and labor flexibility in manufacturing networks pp. 165-174

David Francas, Nils Löhndorf and Stefan Minner

The power of dimensional analysis in production systems design pp. 175-182

Giovanni Miragliotta

Modeling and simulation of order-driven planning policies in build-to-order automobile production pp. 183-193

Thomas Volling and Thomas S. Spengler

Lean planning in the semi-process industry, a case study pp. 194-203

Arnout Pool, Jacob Wijngaard and Durk-Jouke van der Zee

The role of the forecasting process in improving forecast accuracy and operational performance pp. 204-214

Pamela Danese and Matteo Kalchschmidt

Labour productivity change: Drivers, business impact and macroeconomic moderators pp. 215-223

Krisztina Demeter, Attila Chikan and Zsolt Matyusz

The effect of spatial variables on the economic and environmental performance of bioenergy production chains pp. 224-233

Devrim Murat Yazan, A. Claudio Garavelli, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli and Vito Albino

Risk assessment and profit sharing in business networks pp. 234-241

Giovanna Lo Nigro and Lorenzo Abbate

An empirical analysis of supply chain risk management in the German automotive industry pp. 242-249

Jörn-Henrik Thun and Daniel Hoenig

The analysis of bullwhip effect in a HMMS-type supply chain pp. 250-256

Imre Dobos

Workload control under continuous order release pp. 257-262

Nuno O. Fernandes and S. Carmo-Silva

Assessing the influence of the organization in the supply chain management using NK simulation pp. 263-272

Ilaria Giannoccaro

Value of knowledge--Technology strategies in different knowledge regimes pp. 273-287

Kalevi Kyläheiko, Ari Jantunen, Kaisu Puumalainen and Pasi Luukka

SCOR template--A simulation based dynamic supply chain analysis tool pp. 288-294

Fredrik Persson

Development of maintenance function performance measurement framework and indicators pp. 295-302

Peter Muchiri, Liliane Pintelon, Ludo Gelders and Harry Martin

Towards theory building in agile manufacturing strategies--Case studies of an agility taxonomy pp. 303-312

David Z. Zhang

Assessing the impact of cost optimization based on infrastructure modelling on CO2 emissions pp. 313-321

Irina Harris, Mohamed Naim, Andrew Palmer, Andrew Potter and Christine Mumford

The interface of the energy and forest sectors--Potential players in the bioenergy business pp. 322-332

Satu Pätäri, Kaisu Puumalainen, Ari Jantunen and Jaana Sandstrüm

On risk and cost in global sourcing pp. 333-341

Matthias Holweg, Andreas Reichhart and Eui Hong

On leanness, agility and leagile supply chains pp. 342-354

Mohamed M. Naim and Jonathan Gosling

Evaluation of postponement in the soluble coffee supply chain: A case study pp. 355-364

Hartanto Wong, Andrew Potter and Mohamed Naim

The role of free economic zones in global supply chains--a case of reverselogistics pp. 365-371

David Bogataj and Marija Bogataj

Non-cooperative strategies for production and shipment lot sizing in one vendor-multi-buyer system pp. 372-382

StanisLaw Bylka

Using a mathematical programming model to examine the marginal price of capacitated resources pp. 383-391

Ali Kefeli, Reha Uzsoy, Yahya Fathi and Michael Kay

A practical approach to sensitivity analysis in linear programming under degeneracy for management decision making pp. 392-398

Tamás Koltai and Viola Tatay

Order release planning with clearing functions: A queueing-theoretical analysis of the clearing function concept pp. 399-406

Hubert Missbauer

Multi-objective ant colony optimisation: A meta-heuristic approach to supply chain design pp. 407-420

Luis A. Moncayo-Martínez and David Z. Zhang

An optimization approach for managing fresh food quality throughout the supply chain pp. 421-429

Aiying Rong, Renzo Akkerman and Martin Grunow