The integration of marketing and demand with logistics and inventories (supply side of companies) may cause multiple improvements; it can revolutionize the management of the revenue of rental companies, hotels, and airlines. In this paper, we develop a multi-objective pricing-inventory model for a retailer. Maximizing the retailer's profit and the service level are the objectives, and shorta...

This study presents a capacitated multi-facility location-allocation problem with stochastic demands based on a well-known distribution function. In this discrete environment, besides the capacitated facilities, we can employee the capacitated sub-source of each facility for satisfying demands of customers. The objective function is to find the optimal locations of facilities among a finite num...

Considering the competition in today’s business environment, tactical planning of a supply chain becomes more complex than before. In many multi-product inventory systems, substitution flexibility can improve profits. This paper aims to prepare a comprehensive substitution inventory model, where an inventory system with two substitute products with ignorable lead time has been considered, and e...

We study the value and quality of deterministic solutions to scheduled stochastic capacitated multi-commodity service network design problems. We study both the fixed and variable (integer and continuous) capacity cases, and investigate models with and without asset-balance constraints. For the deterministic cases, we replace the random variables in the stochastic model with the 50 th and the 7...

The centralized management approach provides a general view to set a better coordination between the elements of the supply chain, and look for the equilibrium between the stock and the shipped quantities. This paper describes a stochastic model predictive control algorithm to optimize the warehousing cost and the shipping cost on the same time. We consider a multi-level and multi-product suppl...

Vaccination has been proven to be the most effective method prevent infectious diseases. However, in many low- and middle-income countries with geographically dispersed nomadic populations, last-mile vaccine delivery can extremely complex. Because newborns remote population centers often do not have direct access clinics hospitals, they face significant risk from diseases infections. An approac...