Research Interests
Production planning and control; Capacity
management; Semiconductor industry; Remanufacturing industry; Recycling
industry; Healthcare industry
Production and Inventory Planning
Production
smoothing in just in time manufacturing systems: models and solution approaches
(with M. Yavuz) International
Journal of Production Research, 2007, v 45(16): 3579-3597.
Optimizing capacity ramp-up decisions in the
semiconductor industry (with A. Soylu) IIERC Conference Proceedings, 2006.
Optimizing
production smoothing decisions via batch selection for mixed-model just-in-time
manufacturing systems with arbitrary setup and processing times (with M. Yavuz and
A hybrid meta-heuristics for the
batching problem in just-in-time flow shops (with M. Yavuz
and
Short term capacity allocation problem
with tool and setup constraints (with A. Üngör
and R. Uzsoy) Naval
Research Logistics, 2005, 52(8): 754-765.
An integrated
inventory-transportation system for multi-item joint replenishment with limited
vehicle capacity (with
Cycle time reduction for
photolithography process in semiconductor manufacturing, (with K. Nemoto and R. Uzsoy) IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor
Manufacturing, 2001, 14(1): 48-56.
A decision support system for spare
parts management in a wafer fabrication facility (with R. Hamlin, T.
McCullough, M. Davis, T. Teyner, and R. Uzsoy) IEEE
Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, 2001, 14(1): 76-78.
Quantifying the
benefits of cycle time reduction in semiconductor wafer fabrication, (with K. Nemoto and R. Uzsoy) IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging
Manufacturing, 2000, 23(1): 39-47.
Remanufacturing and Demanufacturing
Operations Management
Quantitative Models for Inventory and Production Planning in Closed-Loop
Supply Chains (with S. Çetinkaya), submitted for
publication, 2009. on-line
appendix
Capacitated replenishment and disposal planning for multiple products
with resalable returns
(with I. Karakayalı, S. Çetinkaya,
and H. Üster), submitted for publication, 2009.
Recycling, submitted for publication, 2009.
Pricing and recovery planning for demanufacturing operations with multiple used products and
multiple reusable components (with I. Karakayalı
and H. Emir-Farinas), submitted
for publication, 2008.
Is assortment selection a popularity contest? A study
of assortment, return policy, and pricing decisions of retailer (with A. Grasas and A. Alptekinoğlu),
submitted for publication, 2008.
When to carry eccentric products? Optimal assortment
under product returns (with A. Grasas and A. Alptekinoğlu), submitted
for publication, 2008.
Network design for reverse and closed-loop supply chains: an annotated
bibliography of models and solution approaches (with S. Çetinkaya
and H. Üster), available on-line in early view, Networks, 2008.
Analyzing the effects of inventory cost
setting rules in a disassembly and recovery environment (with Z.P. Bayindir), International
Journal of Production Research, 2008, 46(1): 267-288.
Benders decomposition with alternative multiple cuts for a multi-product
closed-loop supply chain network design model (H. Üster,
G. Easwaran, and S. Çetinkaya),
Naval Research Logistics, 2007,
54(8): 890-907.
An analysis
of decentralized collection and processing operations for end-of-life products
(with
I. Karakayalı and H. Emir) Journal of Operations Management, 2007,25(6):1161-1183.
Effects of random yield in reverse supply
chains with price-sensitive supply and demand (with I.S. Bakal) Production
& Operations Management, 2006, 15(3): 407-420.
Decentralized
collection and recovery operations for durable end-of-life products with
multiple remanufacturable parts (with I. Karakayalı) IIERC
Conference Proceedings, 2006.
Seeding strategies
in remanufacturing (with M.A. Morse) IIERC
Conference Proceedings, 2003.
Healthcare Operations Management
A network
flow approach to optimizing hospital bed capacity decisions (with M.J. Cote
and C.-I Lin) Health Care Management
Science, 2006, 9(3): 391-404.