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The following selection of papers and articles provides a basic insight for the theoretical and applied aspects of developing and implementing analytical decision-support tools for managing the inventory of repairable/rotable parts.




 

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U. W. Thonemann, A. O. Brown, and W. H. Hausman, "Easy Quantification of Improved Spare Parts Inventory Policies," Management Science, September 2002

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M. A. Cohen, C. Cull, H. L. Lee, and D. Willen, "Saturn’s Supply-Chain Innovation: High Value in After Sales Service," Sloan Management Review, Summer 2000, 93-101

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Ki Ling Cheung and Warren H. Hausman, "An Exact Performance Evaluation for the Supplier in a Two-Echelon Inventory System, Operations Research, V. 48. N. 4, July-August 2000, 646-653

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V. Daniel R. Guide Jr. and Rajesh Srivastava, “Repairable Inventory Theory: Models and Applications,” European Journal of Operational Research, 102, 1997, 1-20

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J. Ashayeri, R. Heuts, A. Jansen, and B. Szczerba, “Inventory Management of Repairable Service Parts for Personal Computers: a Case Study,” International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 16, 1996, 74-97

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J. Kim, K. Shin, H. Yu, “Optimal Algorithm to Determine the Spare Inventory Level for a Repairable-item Inventory System,” Computers and Operations Research, 23, 1996, 289-297

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Warren H. Hausman and Nesim Erkip, "Multiple Failures in a Multi-Item Spares Inventory Model," IIE Transactions, Vol. 27, No.2, April 1995, 171-180

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Warren H. Hausman and Nesim Erkip, "Multi-Echelon vs. Single-Echelon Inventory Control for Low-Demand Items," Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 5, May, 1994, 597-602

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W. Jung, “Recoverable Inventory Systems with Time-varying Demand,” Production and Inventory Management Journal, 34, 1993, 77-81

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A. Gupta, “Approximate Solution of a Single-base multi-indentured Repairable-item Inventory System, Journal of Operational Research Society, 44 1993, 701-710

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M. C. Mabini and L. F. Gelders, “Repairable Item Inventory Systems: a Literature Review,” Belgian Journal of Operations Research, Statistics, and Computer Science, 30, 1991, 58-69

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Morris A. Cohen and Hau L. Lee, “Out of Touch with Customer Needs? Spare Parts and After Sales Service,” Sloan Management Review, Winter 1990, 55-66

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M. A. Cohen, P. V. Kamesam, P. R. Kleindorfer, H. L. Lee, and A. Tekerian, “Optimizer: IBM’s Multi-echelon Inventory System for Managing Service Logistics,” Interfaces, 20: 1 January-February 1990, 65-82

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Hau L. Lee and Kamran Moinzadeh, “A Repairable Item Inventory System with Diagnostic and Repair Service,” European Journal of Operational Research, 40, 1989, 210-221

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M. A. Cohen, P. R. Kleindorfer, and H. L. Lee, “Service Constrained (s,S) Inventory Systems with Priority Demand Classes and Lost Sales,” Management Science, 34, 4, 1988, 482-499

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Hau L. Lee, “A Multi-echelon Inventory Model for Rapairable Items with Emergency Lateral Transshipments,” Management Science, 33, 10, 1987, 1302-1316

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Hau L. Lee and Kamran Moinzadeh, “Two-parameter Approximation for Multi-echelon Repairable Models with Batch Ordering Policy,” IIE Transactions, 19, 2, 1987, 140-149

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Hau L. Lee and Kamran Moinzadeh “Operating Characteristics of a Two-echelon Inventory System for Repairable and Consumable Items under Batch Ordering and Shipment Policy,” Naval Research Logistics, 34, 3, 1987, 365-380

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Kamran Moinzadeh and Hau L. Lee, “Batch Size and Stocking Levels in Multi-echelon Repairable Systems,” Management Science, 32, 12, 1986, 1567-1581

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M. A. Cohen, P. R. Kleindorfer, H. L. Lee, and A. Tekerian, “Excess Demand Distribution for Multi-echelon (s,S) Stocking Policies in Multi-echelon Logistics Systems,” in Inventories in Theory and Practice, edited by A. Chikan, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1986, 655-667

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M. A. Cohen, P. R. Kleindorfer, and H. L. Lee, “Optimal Stocking Policies for Low Usage Items in Multi-echelon Inventory Systems", Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 33, 1986, 17-38

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Stephen C. Graves, “A Multi-echelon Inventory Model for a Repairable Item with One-for-one Replenishment,” Management Science, 31, 10, October 1985, 1247-1256

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Craig C. Sherbrooke, “METRIC: a Multi-echelon Technique for Recoverable Item Control,” Operations Research, 16, 1968, 122-141