• A clustering-based repair shop design for repairable spare part supply systems 

      Turan H.H.; Sleptchenko A.; Pokharel S.; ElMekkawy T.Y. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)
      In this study, we address the design problem of a single repair shop in a repairable multi-item spare part supply system. We propose a sequential solution heuristic to solve the joint problem of resource pooling, inventory ...
    • A pooling strategy for flexible repair shop designs 

      Turan, Hasan Huseyin; Pokharel, Shaligram; Sleptchenko, Andrei; ElMekkawy, Tarek Y; Al-Khatib, Maryam ( SciTePress , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      We discuss the design problem of a repair shop in a single echelon repairable multi-item spare parts supply system. The repair shop consists of several parallel multi-skilled servers, and storage facilities for the repaired ...
    • A sorting based efficient heuristic for pooled repair shop designs 

      Turan, Hasan Hüseyin; Sleptchenko, Andrei; Pokharel, Shaligram; ElMekkawy, Tarek Y ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)
      In this paper, we address the assignment problem of skills to servers (e.g., repairmen) in a multi-server repair shop of a spare parts supply system. This type of assignment problems tends to be hard in general, due to the ...
    • An Efficient Heuristic for Pooled Repair Shop Designs 

      Turan, Hasan Hüseyin; Pokharel, Shaligram; ElMekkawy, Tarek Y.; Sleptchenko, Andrei; Al-Khatib, Maryam ( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      An effective spare part supply system planning is essential to achieve a high capital asset availability. We investigate the design problem of a repair shop in a single echelon repairable multi-item spare parts supply ...
    • Provider selection and task allocation in telecommunications with QoS degradation policy 

      Kasap N.; Turan H.H.; Savran H.; Tektas-Sivrikaya B.; Delen D. ( Springer New York LLC , 2018 , Article)
      The information age that we are living in is characterized by exponentially increasing needs and corresponding means to access, transmit and use data in a variety of business settings. Fast growing demand, which is translated ...
    • Vehicle routing problem in omni-channel retailing distribution systems 

      Abdulkader M.M.S.; Gajpal Y.; ElMekkawy T.Y. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)
      This paper introduces a variant of the vehicle routing problem where a group of retail stores are served from a distribution center using a fleet of vehicles. Moreover, products are distributed to consumers from some of ...