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Inventory theory

Publications associées (14)

Optimizing Sales Forecasting, Inventory, Pricing and Sourcing Decisions

In this thesis we address various factors that contribute both theoretically and practically to mitigating supply demand mismatches. The thesis is composed of three chapters, where each chapter is an independent scientific paper. In the first paper, we dev ...

EPFL2023

Industry 4.0 Technologies and Customer-centricity for Digital Supply Chains

Rachel Agnès Laetitia Rosemonde Marie Lacroix

The last few years have experienced the emergence of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), ultra-customization, and the explosion of demand for ethical, fair trade, and sustainable consumption. Organizations have therefore started a digital transformation of their SCs and ...

EPFL2021

Product assortment and space allocation strategies to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas, Argyro Katsifou

Assortment planning deserves much attention from practitioners and academics due to its direct impact on retailers' commercial success. In this paper we focus on the increasingly popular retail practice to use combined product assortments with both "standa ...

2020

Optimization of sample size and order size in an inventory model with quality inspection and return of defective items

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Rafael Batista

To ensure all products as perfect, inspection is essential, even though it is not possible to inspect all products after producing them like some special type products as plastic joint for the water pipe. In this direction, this paper develops an inventory ...

SPRINGER2018

A test of inventory models with permissible delay in payment

Ralf Seifert, Olov Isaksson, Daniel Seifert

Contrary to the long-standing view in the finance literature that firms should maximise payment delays, research in operations management suggests that long payment delays can be suboptimal. In this study, we reconcile these two views by applying a seconda ...

2017

A pilot study on eliciting human operations decision in purchasing and measuring their impact on supply chain efficiency

Rémy Glardon, Souleïman Naciri, Min-Jung Yoo, Yvonne Badulescu

This paper presents a methodology for eliciting the behavioural model of purchasers' decision-making in a supply chain environment. The objective of the work is to explicitly describe the relationship between a human user's behaviour and the resulting perf ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Supply Chain Disruption Risk Management : Modeling Risk Mitigation Strategies

Florian Christopher Matthias Lücker

It is well established that firms are exposed to the risk of supply chain disruptions. Many firms build risk mitigation strategies in order to increase the resilience of their supply chains. In this dissertation we present three essays that study operation ...

EPFL2016

On the role of trust types and levels on inventory replenishment decision

Rémy Glardon, Amin Kaboli, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Maryam Darvish

Using a participatory simulation platform, this paper investigates the inventory replenishment decisions made under different trust categories. Depending on the type of trust (trust in supplier versus trust in customer) and level of trust (high versus low) ...

2014

The Effect of Coercive Power on Supply Chain Inventory Replenishment Decisions

Rémy Glardon

Supply chains often consist of stakeholders with different power levels collaborating with each other in order to meet customer demand. This im-balance of power along the supply chain is a critical factor that affects its short and long-term behavior, as w ...

Bernard Grabot, Bruno Vallespir, Samuel Gomes, Abdelaziz Bouras, Dinitris Kiritsis2014

Trust and Inventory Replenishment Decision Under Continuous Review System

Amin Kaboli

This thesis examines the impact of inventory manager’ trust on their replenishment decision. We conduct this study in the experimental environment and design an experiment with unknown market demand, local information, and under continuous replenishment re ...

EPFL2013

Optimal inventory policies with non-stationary supply disruptions and advance supply information

Bilge Atasoy

We consider the production/inventory problem of a manufacturer (or a retailer) under non-stationary and stochastic supply availability. Although supply availability is uncertain, the supplier would be able to predict her near future shortages and hence sup ...

2012

A three-echelon supply chain with price-only contracts and sub-supply chain coordination

Ralf Seifert, Shuangqing Liao

This paper studies coordination in a three-echelon supply chain and examines the impact of sub-supply chain coordination (sub-coordination). Our analysis is based on the price-only contracts that are commonly used in practice. The model is of the newsvendo ...

2012

Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory control

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

Financial supply chain management and working capital management are increasingly receiving attention as important avenues to increase profitability in supply chains. By actively managing payment terms and working capital requirements, managers can influen ...

2010

Interrelating Operational and Financial Performance Measurements in Inventory Control

Ralf Seifert

2008