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Inventory planning for low demand items in online retailing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
A large online retailer strategically stocks inventory for SKUs with low demand. The motivations are to provide a wide range of selections and faster customer fulfillment service. We assume the online retailer has the ...
Forecast-driven tactical planning models for manufacturing systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Our work is motivated by real-world planning challenges faced by a manufacturer of industrial products. In the first part of the thesis, we study a multi-product serial-flow production line that operates in a low-volume, ...