Information systems were developed in early 1960s to process orders, billings, inventory controls, payrolls, and accounts payables. Soon information systems research began. Harry Stern started the “Information Systems in Management Science” column in Management Science journal to provide a forum for discussion beyond just research papers (Banker & Kauffman, 2004). Ackoff (1967) led the earliest...

In most of the literatures on two-warehouse inventory decision models, the last-in-first-out (LIFO) dispatching policy has always been assumed. This presumption, however, is not in line with the actual practice of most business entities. To enhance the freshness of merchandise or goods, businesses commonly follow the first-in-first-out procedure (FIFO). This inconsistency forms the base and mai...

Among the various existing models for the warehousing management, the simultaneous use of private and public warehouses is as the most well-known one. The purpose of this article is to develop a queuing theory-based model for determining the optimal capacity of private warehouse in order to minimize the total corresponding costs. In the proposed model, the available space and budget to create a...

We consider a continuous-time, single-echelon, multi-location inventory model with Poisson demand processes. In case of a stock-out at a local warehouse, a demand can be fulfilled via a lateral transshipment (LT). Each warehouse is assigned a predetermined sequence of other warehouses where it will request for an LT. However, a warehouse can hold its last part(s) back from such a request. This ...

We develop a two-warehouse production model with imperfect items. Production rate is taken as the linear combination of on-hand inventory and demand, while demand rate is taken as function of time. Most of the researchers consider that the production rate is independent from the demand rate. In this paper we assume production rate as being dependent on the demand rate, and this assumption is mo...

The virtual warehouse (VW) is a state of real-time global visibility for logistics assets such as inventory and vehicles. The eciency of the VW is comparable to that achieved in a local warehouse facility. We assess the enabling technologies, develop a conceptual framework, and identify the essential decisionsupport modules of a virtual warehouse. A case study for ®eld repair service illustrat...

The aim of this paper is to assess the service levels from different point of views by modeling the inventory and warehouse variables. For this reason a main model has been formed and this model has been solved by dividing into inventory sub-model and warehouse sub-model. For the sake of effective implementation of ‘order-picking ‘, the warehouse has been divided into two different areas. These...

We consider a multistage inventory system composed of a single warehouse that receives a single product from a single supplier and replenishes the inventory of n retailers through direct shipments. Ordering costs are dominated by the shipping costs associated with full truckload transportation with cargo capacity constraints. All costs are stationary. Demands for the n retailers over a planning...

Abstract This study examines how enterprise asset management (EAM), customer relationship (CRM), warehouse system (WMS), transport (TMS), and returnable package (RPM) can be integrated with technologies that support supply chain safety management. research work aims to evaluate the effectiveness of integration these systems in improving overall organization. The goal is assess well systems’ tec...