During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations suffered a shortage of essential medical supplies, such as personal protective equipment, which resulted in severe consequences. This study aims to assess the impact of one potential factor for …
Multi-echelon inventory models aim to minimize the system-wide total cost in a multi-stage supply chain by applying a proper ordering policy to each of the stages. In a practical inventory system when backlog costs can be incurred in multiple stages, …
We present a new general approach to modeling research problems as Atari-like videogames to make them amenable to recent groundbreaking solution methods from the deep reinforcement learning community. The approach is flexible, applicable to a wide …