Yearbooks

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• Theory of Inventory Systems:
Inventory models and modelling including time and certainty complexities, linear and non-linear systems and feedback systems
• Review of inventory models:
Types and representations (classic, shortage, capacity constraint, time value of money, deterioration, time varying, stochastic inputs, imperfect quality, integrated scheduling and lot sizing models, service systems and retrial queues)
• Review of important inventory papers, their approaches and their foci:
• Modelling and Solution techniques:
Characterisation and assumptions
Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Programming, Heuristics, Simulation Models, Control Theory and other approaches
• State of the art of modelling:
Current challenges and research trends
• Technological solutions of inventory modelling and management:
Algorithms and software, integration to MRP, ERP and scheduling modules, integration to WMS modules, and demonstrations