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garlic is one of the export crops which has a global reputation in terms of taste and quality. zanjan province produces 23 percent of total garlic crop of iran and is one the hubs of garlic production in the country. effective factors on marketing of garlic is not well studied in this province. therefore, the main purpose of this study is analysis of factors affecting marketing of garlic in zan...

Consider a mass customizer who produces multiple variants of a product in make-to-order fashion, and who also produces some standard variants as make-to-stock. We evaluate pricing and production issues from a joint marketing and operations perspective. Marketing determines prices while operations chooses between three production strategies as it sets capacity. A key result is that under the log...

Motivated by the operational environment in high-tech industries, this paper examines the coordination between and when time to market and capacity marketing operations utilization are both main factors. In contrast to earlier joint lot-sizing literature which focuses on price-quantity coordination, our model captures the inter-relationship between order quantity, capacity level, and lead-time....

This article presents a novel matheuristic for solving the hump yard block-to-track assignment problem. This is an important problem arising in the railway freight industry and involves scheduling the transitions of a set of rail cars from a set of inbound trains to a set of outbound trains over a certain planning horizon. It was also the topic of the 2014 challenge organized by the Railway App...

BACKGROUND Air ambulance services in the Arctic have to deal with remote locations, long distances, rough weather conditions and seasonable darkness. Despite these challenges, the people living in the area expect a high quality of specialist health care. AIMS The objective of this study was to analyse the air ambulance operations performed in the Norwegian Arctic and study variations in diagn...