We study a multicomponent, multiproduct production and inventory system in which individual components are made to stock but final products are assembled to customer orders. Each component is produced by an independent production facility with finite capacity, and the component inventory is controlled by an independent base-stock policy. For any given base-stock policy, we derive the key perfor...

Superheroes are often disabled, either literally or metaphorically. Their exceptional powers and abilities may be balanced by weakness in order to engender audience sympathy identification, provide a source of narrative obstacles. Although superhero stories not necessarily about disability, they have become one the most accessible popular formats which disability is consistently salient trope i...

We study a multi-item stochastic inventory system in which customers may order different but possibly overlapping subsets of items, such as a multiproduct assemble-to-order system. The goal is to determine the right base-stock level for each item and to identify the key driving factors. We formulate a cost-minimization model with order-based backorder costs and compare it with the standard sing...

We consider an assemble-to-order system in which components must be expedited, if necessary, to avoid violating quoted maximum leadtimes. When a high volume of customers arrive per time unit, we provide a policy for setting static prices, maximum leadtime quotations, and component production capacity, and then dynamically sequencing orders for assembly and expediting components. When expediting...