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ELSEVIER  Int. J. Production  Economics 81—82 (2003) 615-618 
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Contents  Volumes  81—82 
Storage capacity and water use in the 21 water-resource regions of the United States geological survey 
A. Stern 
Developments in global inventory investment 
A. Chikan and T. Tatrai 
Long term trends in US inventory to sales ratios 
F.O. Irvine 
Problems with using traditional aggregate inventory to sales ratios 
F.O. Irvine 
Operations manager turnover and inventory fluctuations 
J.A. Alfaro and J.A. Tribo 
Optimal lot size, inventories, prices and JIT under monopolistic competition 
M.C. Lovell 
Production-planning horizon, production smoothing, and convexity of the cost functions 
M.A. Ghali 
Inventory changes and the closing of macroeconometric models 
R. Fiorito 
You may not use inventory levels to fill orders if...: Evidence from a survey of UK manufacturing plants 
Agility and mixed-model furniture production 
A.C. Yao and J.G.H. Carlson 
A simulation study of lateral shipments in single supplier, multiple buyers supply chain networks 
A. Banerjee, J. Burton and S. Banerjee 
Is anybody listening? An investigation into popular advice and actual practices 
G.Vastag and D.C.Whybark 
Responsibilities for inventory decisions in Polish manufacturing companies 
D. Kisperska-Moron 
Firm performance under just-in-time and traditional proxies for profit maximization 
D.G. Bivin 
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Retailer's pricing, credit and inventory policies for deteriorating items in response to temporary 
price/credit incentives 
F.J. Arcelus,  N.H. Shah and G. Srinivasan 
Overage inventory  —how does it occur and why is it important? 
G. Relph and P. Barrar . 
An organizational perspective on inventory control:  Theory and a case study 
L.G. Zomerdijk and J. deVries 
Flows of goods or supply chains; lessons from the natural rubber industry in Kerala, India 
J. de Haan, G. de Groot, E. Loo and M. Ypenburg 
Cross-functional decision-making in improving inventory management decision procedures 
K. Korhonen and T. Pirttila 
Manufacturing strategy and competitiveness 
K. Demeter 
The consignment stock of inventories: Industrial case and performance analysis 
G. Valentini and L. Zavanella 
Modelling product returns in inventory control—exploring the validity of general assumptions 
M.P. de Brito and R. Dekker 
The changing relationship between production and inventory examined in a concurrent engineering 
context 
M. Bonney, S. Ratchev and |. Moualek 
An approach to link customer characteristics to inventory decision making 
J. Huiskonen,  P. Niemi andT. Pirttila 
Multiple-supplier inventory models in supply chain management: A review 
S. Minner  PS 
Policies for inventory/distribution systems: The effect of centralization vs. decentralization 
B. Abdul-Jalbar, J. Gutiérrez, J. Puerto and J. Sicilia 
Properties of lot-sizing rules under lumpy demand 
I.N. Pujawan and B.G. Kingsman 
Inventory control and investment policy 
EV. Bulinskaya 
An NPV and AC analysis of a stochastic inventory system with joint manufacturing and remanufacturing 
E.vanderLaan  .. 
Optimal control of a one product recovery system with leadtimes 
G.P. Kiesmuller 
Transaction costs in finance and inventory research 
H.-J. Girlich 
Optimal production-inventory strategies for  a HMMS-type reverse logistics system 
|. Dobos
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How far should JIT vendor—buyer relationships go? 
|. David and M. Eben-Chaime 
The market-oriented dynamic product recovery model in the just-in-time framework 
K. Richter and B. Gobsch 
VaR as arisk measure for multiperiod static inventory models 
E. Luciano, L. Peccati and D.M. Cifarelli 
Rounding off the optimal solution of the economic lot size problem 
L. Bertazzi 
The maximin criterion as an alternative to the expected value in the replanning issues 
L. Bogataj and D. Hvalica 
Inventory management in a multi-echelon spare parts supply chain 
M. Kalchschmidt, G. Zotteri and R. Verganti 
The detailed coordination problem in a two-level assembly system with stochastic lead times 
O. Tang and RW. Grubbstrom 
Partnership and negotiation support by joint optimal ordering/setup policies for JIT 
P. Kelle, F. Al-khateeb and P. A. Miller 
Optimal control of a distributed service system with moving resources: Application to the fleet 
sizing and allocation problem 
P. Kochel, S. Kunze and U. Nielander 
Restricted time-remembering policies for the inventory rationing problem 
P. Melchiors 
Economic lot scheduling on multiple production lines with resource constraints 
R. Pesenti and W. Ukovich 
A stochastic model of multi-level/multi-stage capacity-constrained production—inventory systems 
RW. Grubbstrom and Z.Wang 
Joint replenishment multiproduct inventory problem with continuous production and discrete demands 
R. Rempala 
A stochastic inventory model of dual sourced supply chain with lead-time reduction 
SW. Ryu and K.K. Lee 
Optimal stopping and restarting production times for an EOQ model with deteriorating items and 
time-dependent partial backlogging 
K. Skouri and S. Papachristos 
Competitive and cooperative policies for the vendor—buyer system 
S. Bylka 
Approximate optimization of a two-level distribution inventory system 
S. Axsater 
A model of crop planning under uncertainty in agricultural management 
T. Itoh, H. Ishii andT . Nanseki 
Minimum number of warehouses for storing simultaneously compatible products 
R. Kalfakakou, S. Katsavounis and K. Tsouros
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A model for evaluating supplier-owned inventory strategy 
R. Piplani and S. Viswanathan 
Capacitated two-indenture models for repairable item systems 
W.H. Zijm and Z.M. Avsar 
Prediction of the demand of the railway sleepers: A simulation model for replacement strategies 
W.Y. Yun and L. Ferreira 
A model to evaluate inventory costs in a remanufacturing environment 
Z.P. Bayindir, N. Erkip and R. Gulla 
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