INCREASING WATER SUPPLY THROUGH WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

Satisfying Growing Water Demand Through Integrated Groundwater and Watershed Management

Improving Southwestern Riparian Areas Through Watershed Management

This paper reviews opportunities and watershed restoration tech­ niques available for rehabilitating and enhancing riparian ecosystems in southwest environments. As such, it is intended to serve as a state­ of-the-art report on riparian hydrology and improvement in both naturally occurring and man-made riparian areas throughout the

Increasing Supply Chain Robustness through Process Flexibility and Strategic Inventory

This paper combines process flexibility and strategic inventory to develop an effective disruption mitigation strategy. We consider a manufacturer with multiple plants producing multiple products where strategic inventory can be held for any product. We measure the level of supply chain robustness by proposing the concept of Time-to-Survive (TTS) defined as the maximum time that no customer dem...

Enhancing Basic Metal Industry Global Competitiveness Through Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management & Just- In -Time

The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...

Increasing Supply Chain Robustness through Process Flexibility and Inventory

We study a hybrid strategy that uses both process flexibility and inventory to mitigate risks of plant disruption. In this setting, a firm allocates inventory before disruption while facing demand uncertainties; demand is realized after disruption, and the firm schedules its production using process flexibility to minimize lost sales. This interplay between process flexibility and inventory is ...