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Quality Management in Bukhari Group of Companies
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Quality management among multiple business units of a large organization is often difficult if each unit is run independently in terms on their quality standards. In this case, participants will discuss how Bukhari Group ...
Optimal partitioning of vertical zones in vehicle-based warehouse systems
(International Journal of Production Research, 2014)
New innovations in warehouse automation systems such as autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval (AVS/R) system offer greater flexibility and responsiveness in processing unit-load storage and retrieval transactions ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blocking effects in warehouse systems with autonomous vehicles
(IEEE Transactions on Automation Science & Engineering, 2014)
Autonomous vehicle-based storage and retrieval system (AVS/RS) offers considerable flexibility with respect to throughput capacity in the transfer of unit loads in high density storage areas. AVS/RS relies on autonomous ...
State of the practice: a review of the application of OR/MS in freight transportation
(INFORMS, 2014)
Freight transportation is an important part of the global supply chain. As distances shipped grow and supply chains become more complex and fragile, operations research (OR) can play an important role in improving the ...
A constrained nash bargaining approach to the stock rationing problem in multi-echelon supply chains
(International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2014)
In order to survive in the global volatile market place, supply chain analysts are brainstorming to arrive at robust inventory control policies that prevents inventory worth of millions of dollars to get tied up in the ...
A two-level stochastic model to estimate vessel throughput time
(College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE): Charlotte, NC, 2014)
A good estimate of the vessel sojourn time is essential for better planning and scheduling Of container terminal resources,such as berth scheduling,quay crane(qc)assignment And scheduling,and fleet size planning. ...
Location identification for rapid evacuation from a disaster site: a case study from KAPS
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Robust plans need to be developed for rapidly evacuating victims from a nuclear disaster site. Although nuclear plants are constructed with multiple redundant safety features, the chances of a leak can never be zero. In ...
Modeling and design of container terminal operations
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-06)
Design of container terminal operations is complex because multiple factors affect the operational performance. These factors include: topological constraints, a large number of design parameters and settings, and stochastic ...