Benefits of CPFR Collaboration Strategy under Different Inventory Holding and Backorder Penalty Costs

The Epistemic Costs and Benefits of Collaboration

In “How to Collaborate,” Paul Thagard tries to explain why there is so much collaboration in science, and so little collaboration in philosophy, by giving an epistemic cost-benefit analysis. In this paper, I argue that an adequate explanation requires a more fully developed epistemic value theory than Thagard utilizes. In addition, I offer an alternative to Thagard’s explanation of the lack of ...

A two - warehouse inventory model for items with imperfect quality and penalty costs under screening errors

This paper corrects an improper expression in the economic order quantity (EOQ) model with two-warehouses and imperfect quality developed by Chung et al. [2009. A twowarehouse inventory model with imperfect quality production processes. Computers & Industrial Engineering 56, 193-197]. The modiT ed model yields a simple and corrected expression for the optimal order quantity and expected proT t ...

Clinical Governance: Costs and Benefits

A production–recycling–inventory system with imprecise holding costs

This paper presents an optimal control recycling production inventory system in fuzzy environment. The used items are bought back and then either put on recycling or disposal. Recycled products can be used for the new products which are sold again. Here, the rate of production, recycling and disposal are assumed to be function of time and considered as control variables. The demand inversely de...

Interrelation of Preventive Care Benefits and Shared Costs under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), access to insurance and coverage of preventive care services has been expanded. By removing the barrier of shared costs for preventive care, it is expected that an increase in utilization of preventive care services will reduce the cost of chronic diseases. Early detection and treatment is anticipated to be less costly than treatment at ...