international journal of production economics a VA OES. ELSEVIER Int. J. Production Economics 81—82 (2003) 615-618 www.eclsevier.com/locate/dsw Contents Volumes 81—82 Storage capacity and water use in the 21 water-resource regions of the United States geological survey A. Stern Developments in global inventory investment A. Chikan and T. Tatrai Long term trends in US inventory to sales ratios F.O. Irvine Problems with using traditional aggregate inventory to sales ratios F.O. Irvine Operations manager turnover and inventory fluctuations J.A. Alfaro and J.A. Tribo Optimal lot size, inventories, prices and JIT under monopolistic competition M.C. Lovell Production-planning horizon, production smoothing, and convexity of the cost functions M.A. Ghali Inventory changes and the closing of macroeconometric models R. Fiorito You may not use inventory levels to fill orders if...: Evidence from a survey of UK manufacturing plants Agility and mixed-model furniture production A.C. Yao and J.G.H. Carlson A simulation study of lateral shipments in single supplier, multiple buyers supply chain networks A. Banerjee, J. Burton and S. Banerjee Is anybody listening? An investigation into popular advice and actual practices G.Vastag and D.C.Whybark Responsibilities for inventory decisions in Polish manufacturing companies D. Kisperska-Moron Firm performance under just-in-time and traditional proxies for profit maximization D.G. Bivin PIT: $0925-5273(02)00439-5 616 Contents Volumes 81-82 Retailer's pricing, credit and inventory policies for deteriorating items in response to temporary price/credit incentives F.J. Arcelus, N.H. Shah and G. Srinivasan Overage inventory —how does it occur and why is it important? G. Relph and P. Barrar . An organizational perspective on inventory control: Theory and a case study L.G. Zomerdijk and J. deVries Flows of goods or supply chains; lessons from the natural rubber industry in Kerala, India J. de Haan, G. de Groot, E. Loo and M. Ypenburg Cross-functional decision-making in improving inventory management decision procedures K. Korhonen and T. Pirttila Manufacturing strategy and competitiveness K. Demeter The consignment stock of inventories: Industrial case and performance analysis G. Valentini and L. Zavanella Modelling product returns in inventory control—exploring the validity of general assumptions M.P. de Brito and R. Dekker The changing relationship between production and inventory examined in a concurrent engineering context M. Bonney, S. Ratchev and |. Moualek An approach to link customer characteristics to inventory decision making J. Huiskonen, P. Niemi andT. Pirttila Multiple-supplier inventory models in supply chain management: A review S. Minner PS Policies for inventory/distribution systems: The effect of centralization vs. decentralization B. Abdul-Jalbar, J. Gutiérrez, J. Puerto and J. Sicilia Properties of lot-sizing rules under lumpy demand I.N. Pujawan and B.G. Kingsman Inventory control and investment policy EV. Bulinskaya An NPV and AC analysis of a stochastic inventory system with joint manufacturing and remanufacturing E.vanderLaan .. Optimal control of a one product recovery system with leadtimes G.P. Kiesmuller Transaction costs in finance and inventory research H.-J. Girlich Optimal production-inventory strategies for a HMMS-type reverse logistics system |. Dobos Contents Volumes 81-82 How far should JIT vendor—buyer relationships go? |. David and M. Eben-Chaime The market-oriented dynamic product recovery model in the just-in-time framework K. Richter and B. Gobsch VaR as arisk measure for multiperiod static inventory models E. Luciano, L. Peccati and D.M. Cifarelli Rounding off the optimal solution of the economic lot size problem L. Bertazzi The maximin criterion as an alternative to the expected value in the replanning issues L. Bogataj and D. Hvalica Inventory management in a multi-echelon spare parts supply chain M. Kalchschmidt, G. Zotteri and R. Verganti The detailed coordination problem in a two-level assembly system with stochastic lead times O. Tang and RW. Grubbstrom Partnership and negotiation support by joint optimal ordering/setup policies for JIT P. Kelle, F. Al-khateeb and P. A. Miller Optimal control of a distributed service system with moving resources: Application to the fleet sizing and allocation problem P. Kochel, S. Kunze and U. Nielander Restricted time-remembering policies for the inventory rationing problem P. Melchiors Economic lot scheduling on multiple production lines with resource constraints R. Pesenti and W. Ukovich A stochastic model of multi-level/multi-stage capacity-constrained production—inventory systems RW. Grubbstrom and Z.Wang Joint replenishment multiproduct inventory problem with continuous production and discrete demands R. Rempala A stochastic inventory model of dual sourced supply chain with lead-time reduction SW. Ryu and K.K. Lee Optimal stopping and restarting production times for an EOQ model with deteriorating items and time-dependent partial backlogging K. Skouri and S. Papachristos Competitive and cooperative policies for the vendor—buyer system S. Bylka Approximate optimization of a two-level distribution inventory system S. Axsater A model of crop planning under uncertainty in agricultural management T. Itoh, H. Ishii andT . Nanseki Minimum number of warehouses for storing simultaneously compatible products R. Kalfakakou, S. Katsavounis and K. Tsouros 618 Contents Volumes 81-82 A model for evaluating supplier-owned inventory strategy R. Piplani and S. Viswanathan Capacitated two-indenture models for repairable item systems W.H. Zijm and Z.M. Avsar Prediction of the demand of the railway sleepers: A simulation model for replacement strategies W.Y. Yun and L. Ferreira A model to evaluate inventory costs in a remanufacturing environment Z.P. Bayindir, N. Erkip and R. Gulla Diary of Events Author Index to Volumes 81-82 Contents to Volumes 81-82