International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2026

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 84, issue 3, 2003

Efficacy of end-user neural network and data mining software for predicting complex system performance pp. 231-253

Paul F. Schikora and Michael R. Godfrey

Improving the performance of job shop manufacturing with demand-pull production control by reducing set-up/processing time variability pp. 255-270

Jing-Wen Li

Using genetic algorithms to resolve layout problems in facilities where there are aisles pp. 271-282

A. Gomez, Q. I. Fernandez, D. De la Fuente Garcia and P. J. Garcia

Sequencing delivery and receiving operations for yard cranes in port container terminals pp. 283-292

Kap Hwan Kim, Keung Mo Lee and Hark Hwang

A survey of the adoption and use of target costing in Dutch firms pp. 293-305

Henri Dekker and Peter Smidt

The optimal cycle time for EPQ inventory model under permissible delay in payments pp. 307-318

Kun-Jen Chung and Yung-Fu Huang

Optimizing loading policies at a bottleneck facility in an assembly line with random rejects pp. 319-334

Prakash G. Awate, Jayan Moorkanat and Narayan Rangaraj

Volume 84, issue 2, 2003

Optimization approximations for capacity constrained material requirements planning pp. 115-131

Alistair R. Clark

A web-enhanced dynamic BOM-based available-to-promise system pp. 133-147

Mohua Xiong, Shu Beng Tor, Li Pheng Khoo and Chun-Hsien Chen

Optimum design of component tolerances of assemblies using constraint networks pp. 149-163

Christopher C. Yang and V. N. Achutha Naikan

Scale, indivisibilities and production function in data envelopment analysis pp. 165-192

Kaoru Tone and Biresh Sahoo

A management design approach to assembly line systems pp. 193-204

Tetsuo Yamada and Masayuki Matsui

Makespan minimization for two uniform parallel machines pp. 205-213

Ching-Jong Liao and Chien-Hung Lin

Assessing manufacturing management performance for notebook computer plants in Taiwan pp. 215-228

D. Daniel Sheu and Shiao-Lan Peng

Volume 84, issue 1, 2003

Cost and scale-up factors, international inflation indexes and location factors pp. 1-16

Donald S. Remer and Fernando B. Mattos

Market orientation in quality-oriented organizations and its impact on their performance pp. 17-34

Kee-Hung Lai

Successful predictors of business process reengineering (BPR) in financial services pp. 35-50

Mile Terziovski, Paul Fitzpatrick, O&rsquo and Peter Neill

Capital budgeting methods among Sweden's largest groups of companies. The state of the art and a comparison with earlier studies pp. 51-69

Gert Sandahl and Stefan Sjogren

Distributed decision making in supply chain management pp. 71-83

Christoph Schneeweiss

Selecting the most efficient maintenance approach using fuzzy multiple criteria decision making pp. 85-100

Basim Al-Najjar and Imad Alsyouf

Analysis of cooperation effects in Two-Center production models pp. 101-112

Masayuki Matsui, Shun Aita, Shimon Y. Nof, Jianhao Chen and Yukiko Nishibori

Volume 83, issue 3, 2003

Probabilistic multi-item inventory model with varying order cost under two restrictions: A geometric programming approach pp. 223-231

M. O. Abuo-El-Ata, Hala A. Fergany and Mona F. El-Wakeel

On the best number of different standard lengths to stock for one-dimensional assortment problems pp. 233-246

Oliver Holthaus

An inventory model with deteriorating items, quantity discount, pricing and time-dependent partial backlogging pp. 247-256

S. Papachristos and K. Skouri

A techno-economic analysis of the results of product diversification in household appliance durables--evaluating concreteness pp. 257-278

Giancarlo Barbiroli and Antonio Focacci

Evidence of manufacturing strategies in Indian industry: a survey pp. 279-298

G. S. Dangayach and S. G. Deshmukh

A stock rationing policy in a (s,S)-controlled stochastic production system with 2-phase Coxian processing times and lost sales pp. 299-307

Jeong Eun Lee and Yushin Hong

Cyclic deadlock prediction and avoidance for zone-controlled AGV system pp. 309-324

Rajeeva Lochana Moorthy, Wee Hock-Guan, Ng Wing-Cheong and Teo Chung-Piaw

A multi-objective model for purchasing of bulk raw materials of a large-scale integrated steel plant pp. 325-334

Zhen Gao and Lixin Tang

Volume 83, issue 2, 2003

A joint approach for setting unit price and the length of the credit period for a seller when end demand is price sensitive pp. 115-122

P. L. Abad and C. K. Jaggi

A simulation study of focused cellular manufacturing as an alternative batch-processing layout pp. 123-138

Fahad Al-Mubarak, Cem Canel and Basheer M. Khumawala

A simple rule for determining replenishment intervals of an inventory item with linear decreasing demand rate pp. 139-142

S. K. Goyal and B. C. Giri

Prototyping the departmental organisation of an enterprise pp. 143-151

Gert Zulch and Bernd Brinkmeier

Development of a web-based system for supporting sales in a mineral water manufacturing firm: A case study pp. 153-167

E. W. T. Ngai, T. C. E. Cheng and C. M. Y. Lee

Activity-based cost management for design and development stage pp. 169-183

David Ben-Arieh and Li Qian

Required characteristics of statistical distribution models for life cycle cost estimation pp. 185-194

R. Jiang, W. J. Zhang and P. Ji

Exploring the utilization of a CONWIP system for supply chain management. A comparison with fully integrated supply chains pp. 195-215

Oscar Rubiano Ovalle and Adolfo Crespo Marquez

Volume 83, issue 1, 2003

Static scheduling research to minimize weighted and unweighted tardiness: A state-of-the-art survey pp. 1-12

Tapan Sen, Joanne M. Sulek and Parthasarati Dileepan

Manufacturing flexibility and business strategy: An empirical study of small and medium sized firms pp. 13-26

Shih-Chia Chang, Chen-Lung Yang, Hsin-Chia Cheng and Chwen Sheu

A non-radial Malmquist productivity index with an illustrative application to Chinese major industries pp. 27-35

Yao Chen

A consignment system where suppliers cannot verify retailer's sales reports pp. 37-43

Yigal Gerchak and Eugene Khmelnitsky

An information-processing model of maintenance management pp. 45-64

Laura Swanson

Freezing the master production schedule under single resource constraint and demand uncertainty pp. 65-84

Jinxing Xie, Xiande Zhao and T. S. Lee

Efficiency, R&D and ownership - some empirical evidence pp. 85-94

Mogens Dilling-Hansen, Erik Madsen and Valdemar Smith

Lot sizing with learning and forgetting in set-ups and in product quality pp. 95-111

Mohamad Y. Jaber and Maurice Bonney

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