Browsing by Author "Ekici, Ali"
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Coordinated inventory planning for humanitarian relief agencies
Karaca, Meserret (2016-07)Pre-positioning relief supplies in strategic locations around the world is essential for effective disaster response, especially during the critical 72 hours immediately following the disaster. Most of the existing studies ... -
Coordinating collection and appointment scheduling operations at the blood donation sites
Mobasher, A.; Ekici, Ali; Özener, Okan Örsan (Elsevier, 2015-09)According to the regulations imposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the American Association of Blood Banks, in order to extract platelets, donated blood units have to be processed at a processing center ... -
Cyclic delivery schedules for an inventory routing problem
Ekici, Ali; Özener, Okan Örsan; Kuyzu, G. (Informs, 2015-11)We consider an inventory routing problem where a common vendor is responsible for replenishing the inventories of several customers over a perpetual time horizon. The objective of the vendor is to minimize the total cost ... -
Integrated blood collection and appointment scheduling
Mobasher, A.; Ekici, Ali; Özener, Okan Örsan (Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2012)Considering the processing requirements of donated blood, we study an integrated blood collection and appointment scheduling problem. We develop a mixed integer programming model to maximize the amount of donated blood ... -
Modeling influenza pandemic and planning food distribution
Ekici, Ali; Keskinocak, P.; Swann, J. L. (Informs, 2014)Based on the recent incidents of H5N1, H1N1, and influenza pandemics in history (1918, 1957, and 1968) experts believe that a future influenza pandemic is inevitable and likely imminent. Although the severity of influenza ... -
Pricing decisions in a strategic single retailer/dual suppliers setting under order size constraints
Ekici, Ali; Altan, Başak; Özener, Okan Örsan (Informa Group, 2016)In this paper, we study a duopolistic market of suppliers competing for the business of a retailer. The retailer sets the order cycle and quantities from each supplier to minimize its annual costs. Different from other ...
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