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IJPR International Journal of Production Research, Volume 64, Issue 9 , 1 May 2026 is now available online
International Journal of Production Research, Volume 64, Issue 9, 1 May 2026 is now available online.
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Co-opetitive sustainable technology development strategy under government subsidy
Mingqing Ma, Congdong Li, Yelin Fu & Zelong Yi
Motivated by cooperative practices in sustainable technology development, our study examines the strategic decision of a sustainable firm on whether to cooperate with a non-sustainable competitor in d … Read article Load balancing in the mail sorting process: a case study at the French postal company La Poste
Emmanuelle Amann, Arnaud Laurent & Nasser Mebarki
This paper investigates a load balancing problem within the context of postal sorting operations at La Poste, the French postal service. Faced with declining mail volumes, La Poste must reorganise its … Read article Humanitarian logistics planning under uncertain demand and third-party supply capacity: a distributionally robust optimisation approach
Zhongyi Jin, Chenliang Zhang, Kam K. H. Ng, Xuecheng Tian, Haoqing Wang & others
Effective humanitarian logistics planning is crucial given the increasing frequency and intensity of disasters. This study explores two primary relief supply strategies: inventory pre-positioning and … Read article A maintenance decision-making method based on stochastic processes and evidential variables considering small sample conditions
Xiaochuan Duan, Shaoping Wang, Jian Shi, Zhou Yang & Di Liu
Maintenance is crucial for increasing the reliability of a system during its usage. In this paper, a maintenance decision-making optimisation method, based on stochastic processes and evidential varia … Read article An adaptive simulation-based inventory optimisation approach to enhancing biomass supply chain resilience: a case study of remote communities
Mahsa Valipour, Fereshteh Mafakheri & Chun Wang
Bioenergy conversion presents a promising pathway for enhancing energy security and promoting the circular economy. However, biomass supply chains (BSCs) are inherently stochastic and vulnerable to su … Read article CatBoost-enhanced EWMA chart: monitoring high-dimensional categorical data streams
Zhiwen Fang, Yan Li, Fugee Tsung & Dongdong Xiang
With the rapid development of modern sensor technology, data flow characterised by high-dimension and category frequently appear, which poses a great challenge to traditional statistical process contr … Read article A forecast-assisted approach to remaining useful life prediction: a predictive maintenance case study in hybrid Al/CFRP stack drilling
Giulio Mattera, Raffaele Mattera & Luigi Nele
Predictive maintenance is a critical task in modern industries, particularly in high-value sectors such as aerospace, where the production of non-compliant parts can result in substantial financial lo … Read article Ambidextrous strategies for enhancing supply chain adaptability: an exploitation-exploration (in)congruence perspective
Liangliang Zhang, Xin Zhao & Taoyong Su
Adopting ambidextrous learning (AL) is essential for navigating structural and long-term changes in supply chains. This study investigates how the (in)congruence of a supply chain's AL strategy – conf … Read article Integrated capacity planning and multi-project scheduling considering resource transfer and idleness
Xuejun Hu, Yuhao Wang, Mario Vanhoucke, Zhongbao Zhou & Jianjiang Wang
This paper develops a dual-level framework addressing resource allocation and scheduling challenges in customer-driven production systems involving multi-mode projects with predefined release/due date … Read article Responsiveness-related trade-offs for sustainable operations in perishable goods supply chains
Florian Cramer, Christian Fikar & Gerald Reiner
Perishable goods supply chains still require exploration concerning sustainability trade-offs related to supply chain responsiveness. To explore this gap, this work examines responsiveness-related tra … Read article An adaptive model-based deep reinforcement learning approach for matching-while-learning problem in shared manufacturing platforms
Liu Yang, Yuan Qu, Pengyu Yan & Chengbin Chu
Shared manufacturing (SMfg) is an innovative production paradigm that integrates distributed manufacturing resources and services via a cloud platform. Acting as a market intermediary, the SMfg platfo … Read article A two-phase approach for model-based predictive control to improve process quality
Herbert Jodlbauer, Sonja Strasser, Shailesh Tripathi & Judith Warnau
The proposed model is developed to control production processes with highly varying input variables and stringent quality requirements for the process output. The input variables include, for example, … Read article A logic-based benders decomposition method for refrigerated container stacking and relocation problem
Huakun Liu, Yun Peng, Haobin Li, Wenyuan Wang, Xiangda Li & others
Efficient management of refrigerated container (RC) storage plays a critical role in maintaining the quality of cold-chain cargoes and enhancing the efficiency of cold chain logistics. This study addr … Read article A matheuristic and imitation learning-driven evolutionary algorithm for the flexible job shop scheduling benchmark problem with discrete operation sequence flexibility
Weiyao Cheng, Chaoyong Zhang, Leilei Meng, Biao Zhang & Hongyan Sang
In real-world production, a few operations of a job may do not follow precedence constraints. However, classical flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) typically assume operations sequence is fix … Read article Optimal allocation of empty load carriers in multi-site automotive manufacturing during ramp-ups
Florian Klug
This paper addresses the operational planning problem of redistributing empty load carriers (ELCs) across multiple production sites of an automobile manufacturer during the ramp-up of a new vehicle mo … Read article Demand variability in engineer-to-order supply chains: insights from a DDMRP case study
Oskari Huttunen & Petri Helo
Engineer-to-Order (ETO) supply chains with modular T-plant structures face critical inventory challenges: shared components must buffer against demand variability across multiple product variants, whi … Read article Advance selling and contracting strategies under supply chain competition
Mengzhuo Wang, Wenjie Bi, Bin Cao & Letian Zhang
In the fiercely competitive seasonal product market, manufacturers often compete by selling goods in advance through retailers. While supply chain competition is common in practice, it remains under-e … Read article Inventory rationing with critical level policies: a structured literature review
Rodrigo Romero-Silva, Brian Overbeek & Sander de Leeuw
Differentiating service for various customer classes is a critical challenge in modern supply chains, particularly in sectors like e-commerce, healthcare, and industries reliant on critical spare part … Read article Do non-traditional aisle designs outperform traditional ones? A comparative study for order picking warehouses
Sabahattin G. Ozden, Alice E. Smith & Kevin R. Gue
Warehousing and distribution tend to be the most labour-intensive component of logistics. Moreover, these have become more important with the explosion of online purchases, especially with expedient s … Read article Condition-Based maintenance for a multi-state weighted k-out-of-n: G system considering stochastic dependency
Faqun Qi, Huaqing Yang, Yuxin Liu, Xiang Chen & Jiahui Kong
In this article, we investigate a condition-based maintenance (CBM) policy for a multi-state weighted k-out-of-n: G system with stochastic dependency and the competing failures model. In the model, th … Read article Posted on 2026-04-30 by Magdalena Sroczan