Recently added articles from IIE Transactions:
What is the value of real-time shipment tracking information?(Technical report)
Dec 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction Carriers such as UPS, Federal Express and the United States Postal Service have provided tracking information on shipments to their customers for many years. Such tracking information is typically provided for entire shipments, indicating shipment status, such as ...
Buffer location and sizing to optimize cost and quality in semi-continuous manufacturing processes: methodology and application.(Technical report)
Dec 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction Many chemical processes are semi-continuous in nature, involving very significant costs related to batching and storage, as well as quality control and yield management. Examples can be found in the intermediate chemical, paper, textile, food processing, rubber ...
Time-dependent vehicle routing subject to time delay perturbations.(Technical report)
Dec 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction During the observation of the operations of a number of carrier companies, we realized that many unexpected delays occurred during the execution phase of their vehicle routing schedules. Most of these delays are caused by customers' distribution centers not being ...
A single vehicle routing problem with fixed delivery and optional collections.(Technical report)
Dec 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction The Single-Vehicle Routing Problem with Fixed Delivery and Optional Collections (or simply the delivery-optional collections problem) was introduced by Sural and Bookbinder (2003). In this problem, a set of customers, the "delivery customers," receive goods from ...
Predictive/reactive scheduling with controllable processing times and earliness-tardiness penalties.(Technical report)
Dec 01, 2009; ... 1. Introduction In most scheduling studies the processing times of jobs are assumed to be known and fixed. However, in many manufacturing applications the processing times can be altered or controlled (albeit at higher cost) by using additional resources (e.g., manpower, fuel) ...