Fangruo Chen, Stationary Policies in Multiechelon Inventory Systems with Deterministic Demand and Backlogging, Operations Research, Vol. 46, No. 3, Supplement: Focus Issue on Manufacturing Logistics ...

A deterministic multi-period production and inventory model that has concave production costs and piecewise concave [6] inventory costs is analyzed. An essential feature of the model is that it ...

A version of this story ran in the April 2012 issue. Over the past three years, a series of investigations into major police departments in Texas revealed a shockingly large backlog of untested ...

Backlogging has occurred in key service areas. One example they cited is that there are nearly 7 million unprocessed individual tax returns for the 2020 tax year.

Wildfires burning across British Columbia damaged rail lines and brought train shipments to a grinding halt, causing a backlog of deliveries of all sorts of freight that is only now starting to slowly ...