Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Subject "Supply Chain"
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Effects of Inventory Policies on Supply Chain Design
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-21)This thesis is motivated by an industrial problem faced by Bombardier Inc. in designing a two-echelon supply chain. The upper echelon is a plant that operates under batch ordering inventory policy. The lower echelon is a ... -
Facility Location and Transportation in Two Free Trade Zones
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-29)In any supply chain, the location of facilities and the routing of material are important decisions that contribute a significant amount of costs, lowering a corporation's overall profits. These choices become more important ... -
Multiscale modeling in mathematical programming: Application of Clustering
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-18)Integration across decision levels of a supply chain is a key point in improving returns on investment. For example, planning and scheduling are usually carried out separately although they are interdependent of each other. ... -
Supply Chain Network Design with Concave Costs: Theory and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-13)Many practical decision models can be formulated as concave minimization problems. Supply chain network design problems (SCNDP) that explicitly account for economies-of-scale and/or risk pooling often lead to mathematical ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON VENDOR MANAGED INVENTORY IN SUPPLY CHAINS
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Consignment Inventory (CI) and a combination of both (C&VMI) are supply-chain sourcing agreements between a vendor and customer. VMI allows the vendor to initiate orders on behalf of the ...