We studied the ability to reduce supply–demand mismatch of a periodic Make-to-Order (MTO) production system using safety stocks with marketing managing demand lead-time guarantee and price as levers. The aim is understand interdependencies between guarantee, price, stocks. modeled problem an unconstrained stochastic non-linear programming problem, maximizing expected profit per-unit time obtain...

this paper addresses a new product positioning problem, in which prices of the products are simultaneously determined in order to maximize both customer satisfaction and seller’s net profit. in this regard, customer willingness is identified with respect to the products within a family, upon which prices of the products are optimized so as to attain two objective functions: 1) maximizing custom...

in this paper, we study the finitely many constraints of the fuzzyrelation inequality problem and optimize the linear objectivefunction on the region defined by the fuzzy max-product operator.simplification operations have been given to accelerate theresolution of the problem by removing the components having noeffect on the solution process. also, an algorithm and somenumerical and applied exa...

AbstraeL We consider efficient ways of determining the sensitivity of a product to changes in individual factors. The task is motivated by several interesting combinatorial and numeric problems which can be given a unified formulation as the problem of findi.n~ the (associative) product of N objects. Both deterministic and probabilistic changes to the factors are considered. Algorithms for two ...

Counting lattice points inside a ball of large radius in Euclidean space is classical problem analytic number theory, dating back to Gauss. We propose variation on this problem: studying the asymptotics measure an integer affine planes ball. The first term volume ball; we study size remainder term. While equivalent counting eigenvalues Laplace operator torus, our corresponds integrated density ...

It is demonstrated that the pre-dual for problems with total bounded variation regularization terms can be expressed as bilaterally constrained optimization problem. Existence of a Lagrange multiplier and an optimality system are established. This allows to utilize efficient optimization methods developed for problems with box constraints in the context of bounded variation formulations. Here, ...

This paper considers a two-stage assembly flow shop scheduling problem. When all parts of each product are completed in the first stage, they are assembled into a final product on an assembly machine in the second stage. In order to reduce the delivery cost, completed products can be held until completion of some other products to be delivered in a same batch. The proposed problem addresses sch...