17th ISIR Symposium 2012
17th International Symposium on Inventories
August 20-24, 2012 – Budapest, Hungary
Economics of Inventories
Besides the regular paper presentations we plan to have the following special sessions. We also plan roundtables and free discussions. You can read further details by clicking the title of these sessions.
Emergency Actions in Inventory Management Session Organizer: Nagiham Comez This topic would cover any last minute action taken to better match demand and supply on top of regular inventory management activities. The increasing volatility in both demand and supply sources necessitates a more detailed treatment of emergency options along with regular inventory management activities. The topic would include, but not limited to: · Emergency replenishments from the supplier · Replenishment lead time expediting · Replenishment order splitting · Inventory sharing among players in the same echelon · Last minute backordering · Last minute price changes. If you are interested in joining this session, then please do the following: • Send me an email so that I know that you will submit an abstract (comez@bilkent.edu.tr). If you are not sure whether your topic would fit, then please send me an abstract on the basis of which I can form an opinion. • You submit your abstract via the web site for the ISIR conference: http://www.isirsymposium2012.hu. Deadline: March 31, 2012. When you submit you can denote that you want to join the session on Emergency Actions. By the end of April 2012 you will hear whether your abstract has been accepted and whether it is incorporated in the requested session. Nagihan Comez Faculty of Business Administration Bilkent University Bilkent, Ankara, 06800 Turkey Tel: +90 312 290 3069 comez@bilkent.edu.tr
Modelling and Simulation of Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems Session Organizers: Francesco Longo and Adriano Solis Mathematical models of multi-echelon inventory systems, particularly when demand and replenishment leadtimes (both external and internal) are stochastic, become increasingly complex and mathematically intractable. In such a case, Modeling and Simulation (M&S) has proven to be an invaluable and powerful approach to evaluate multi-echelon systems performances under alternative inventory policies. This Special Session offers the possibility to present results and critical issues concerning multi-echelon inventory system analysis, optimization and management procedures by using approaches based on M&S. Authors are kindly invited to include in their scientific articles research works, case studies and applications both theoretical and applied. If you are interested in joining this session, then please do the following: • Send me an email so that I know that you will submit an abstract (f.longo@unical.it). If you are not sure whether your topic would fit, then please send me an abstract on the basis of which I can form an opinion. • You submit your abstract via the web site for the ISIR conference: http://www.isirsymposium2012.hu. Deadline: March 31, 2012. When you submit you can denote that you want to join the session on Modelling and Simulation of Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems • By the end of April 2012 you will hear whether your abstract has been accepted and whether it is incorporated in the requested session. Special Session organizers: Francesco Longo, PhD, Director, Modeling & Simulation Center – Laboratory of Enterprise Solutions, Mechanical Department, University of Calabria, Italy 87036, Rende (CS), Italy Cube 44C, third floor Tel. +39 0984 494891 Fax +39 0984 494673 E-mail: f.longo@unical.it www.msc-les.org Adriano O. Solis, PhD, Associate Professor of Logistics Management & Management Science School of Administrative Studies, York University 4700 Keele St., Canada Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Tel. +1 416-736-2100 ext 22239 Fax +1 416-736-5963 E-mail: asolis@yorku.ca
Service Logistics
Session organizer: Ruud Teunter, University of Groningen
In today’s society the role of advanced technical systems is becoming more and more important. Hospitals cannot function without perfectly functioning medical equipment. Airlines are strongly dependent on high availabilities of their airplanes. Factories depend on high availability of their machines. No company or governmental organization can function without a well functioning computer and communication network. Obviously, because of the high dependency on availability of all these systems, a smart concept for the maintenance/availability management is very important. First of all, one would like to prevent as many failures as possible, e.g. via condition-based maintenance, where the status of critical components may be measured by sensors or event logs. Second, for the failures that one cannot prevent, one wants to have well organized processes so that downtimes of systems are minimized. Upon a failure, it is then important that spare parts, service tools, and service engineers are quickly available. Third, economies of scale are desired for all these activities. For forecasting of failures, learning effects in diagnosis, pooling effects for spare parts and other resources, it is necessary that one has a certain scale. This scale is not obtained by individual users of systems but by either Original Equipment Manufacturers or third parties. This leads to all kinds of questions with respect to service contracts, service level agreements, and customer differentiation.
The above topics are the central issues within the area of “service logistics”. At the ISIR Conference, we will organize a stream on sessions on this topic. Scientific contributions can be made on e.g. the following topics:
• Spare parts management
• Condition-based maintenance, and its effect on spare parts provisioning costs
• Inventory models for spare parts and service tools
• Scheduling of service engineers
• Design of spare parts networks
• The effect of remote monitoring and diagnostics on total costs
• Service contracts and customer differentiation
• The effect of design decisions for new systems on their Total Cost of Ownership
• New business models for collaboration between users
• Game-theoretic models on the relationship between OEM-s, third parties and users
If you are interested in joining these sessions, then please do the following:
• Send me an email so that I know that you will submit an abstract (r.h.teunter@rug.nl). If you are not
sure whether your topic would fit, then please send me an abstract on the basis of which I can form an opinion.
• You submit your abstract via the web site for the ISIR conference: http://www.isirsymposium2012.hu.
Deadline: March 31, 2012. When you submit you can denote that you want to join the sessions on service logistics. By the end of April 2012 you will hear whether your abstract has been accepted and whether it is incorporated in the service logistics sessions.
As ISIR is focused on inventory research, we want these sessions to have a large enough portion of inventoryrelated talks. This will be taken into account when accepting abstracts for these sessions.
Prof. R.H. Teunter
University of Groningen
P.O Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 50 3638617
E-mail: r.h.teunter@rug.nl
For more details please go to the official page of the Symposium:
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