Consumer purchasing behaviour is influenced by many factors. Depending on the circumstances, these factors may become relevant drivers of important supply chain decisions. Expiration dates have an influence on the purchasing ...

This thesis contains a collection of problems dealing with the modelling and optimisation of multi-state production systems, hence addressing challenges within the broader category of flexible manufacturing. These systems ...

The management and control of inventory has become a core part of management, which plays a significant role through achieving efficient and profitable operations of a business organization. Hence, considerable efforts ...

The availability of water can be considered as one of the key ingredients to the human life, yet this resource remains scarcely available to those living in the rural parts of Africa. When water does present itself, it is ...

The classic flow shop problem assumes that jobs make only single passes through the processing machines and that the processing times are not affected by the length of the delay before jobs are processed. These assumptions ...

One of the more recent advances in inventory management is the modelling of inventory systems consisting of items which are capable of growing during the course of the replen- ishment cycle. These items, such as livestock, ...