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Minimizing Customer Waiting Costs for Rental Vehicle Providers using Threshold Reservation Policies
(2013-11-23)
Vehicle rental providers o er di erentiated services to reserve and walk-in customers. In
this research, we study one such service di erentiation strategy, a vehicle threshold policy, which is
to hold vehicles for reserve ...
Improving service system performance using estimates of waiting time probabilities
(International. Journal. of Automation and Logistics, 2014)
Queue length distributions provide insight into the impact of service
system design changes that go beyond simple performance measure averages;
however, such distributions are difficult to estimate when service times are ...
Investigating the environmental and economic impact of loading conditions and repositioning strategies for pallet pooling providers
(Elsevier, 2018-01-20)
Pallets are fundamental assets critical to worldwide supply chain logistics. This research develops models
for closed-loop pallet pooling providers to understand the environmental and economic impact of
customer ...
Selection of pallet management strategies based on carbon emissions impact
(Elsevier, 2015)
This work describes the lifecycle of wood pallets as they move through the supply chain and compares the environmental impacts of the three predominant pallet management strategies: single-use expendable, reusable buy/sell, ...
A novel approach for designing rental vehicle repositioning strategies
(IIE Transactions, 2014)
An important tactical decision for vehicle rental providers is the design of a repositioning strategy to balance vehicle utilization with customer wait times due to vehicle unavailabilities. To address this problem, this ...
Cost-effective pallet management strategies
(Elsevier Ltd, 2016)
The existing industry strategies for managing pallets, (single-use expendable pallets, buy/sell programs, and leased pallet pooling programs), are analyzed and compared using push and pull inventory control policies. A ...
Proactive vs. reactive order-fulfillment resource allocation for sea-based logistics
(Elsevier pvt Ltd., 2018-06)
We study proactive and reactive sea-based order-fulfillment decisions for a set of SKUs. In such
systems, a proactive strategy may be more costly than a reactive strategy and variable marginal
costs change with respect ...