Robert N. Boute

Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

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Can Deep Reinforcement Learning Improve Inventory Management? Performance and Implementation of Dual Sourcing-Mode Problems

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Jan 2019
Joren Gijsbrechts, Robert N. Boute, Jan A. Van Mieghem and Dennis Zhang
KU Leuven, Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Students, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, deep learning, dual sourcing inventory model

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Dual Sourcing and Smoothing Under Non-Stationary Demand Time Series: Re-Shoring with Speedfactories

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2019
Robert N. Boute, Stephen M. Disney and Jan A. Van Mieghem
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Cardiff University - Cardiff Business School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Inventory Management, Order Smoothing, Order-Up-To Policy, Auto-Regressive Demand, Integrated Moving Average Demand, Global Outsourcing, Dual Sourcing, Z−transform

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Global Dual Sourcing and Order Smoothing: The Impact of Capacity and Leadtimes

Robert N. Boute, Jan A. Van Mieghem (2015) Global Dual Sourcing and Order Smoothing: The Impact of Capacity and Lead Times. Management Science 61(9):2080-2099. DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.1992
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2015
Robert N. Boute and Jan A. Van Mieghem
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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sourcing, inventory, stochastic, smoothing, Lagrange's inversion series

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Platform Flexibility Strategies: R&D Investment versus Production Customization Tradeoff

European Journal of Operational Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 May 2017 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2018
Maud Van den Broeke, Robert N. Boute and Jan A. Van Mieghem
Catholic University of Lille - IESEG School of Management, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Product Development, Platform, Flexibility, Newsvendor Networks, Customization

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Coordinating Lead-Time and Safety Stock Decisions in a Two-Echelon Supply Chain with Autocorrelated Consumer Demand

Katholieke Universiteit Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management Working Paper No. 1009
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Jun 2010
Robert N. Boute, Stephen M. Disney, Marc Lambrecht and Benny Van Houdt
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Cardiff University - Cardiff Business School, KU Leuven, Research Center for Operations Management, Faculty of Economics and Business and University of Antwerp
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Production/Inventory System, Supply Chain Coordination, Lead-Time/Safety Stock Interaction, Operations/Marketing Interface

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Digital Operations: Framework and Future Directions

Management and Business Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 17 Jun 2019
Robert N. Boute and Jan A. Van Mieghem
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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digital, automation, autonomous, smart, machine learning, artificial intelligence, operations

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Forecasting Spare Part Demand with Installed Base Information: A Review

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Jan 2018
Sarah Van der Auweraer, Robert N. Boute and A. A. Syntetos
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and Cardiff University - Cardiff Business School
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spare parts, demand forecasting, literature review, maintenance, installed base

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Inventory Management Under Various Maintenance Policies. A Numerical Study in Close Collaboration with an OEM

KU Leuven Faculty of Economics and Business, KBI_1628
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Nov 2016
Joeri Poppe, Rob J.I. Basten, Robert N. Boute and Marc Lambrecht
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and KU Leuven, Research Center for Operations Management, Faculty of Economics and Business
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servitisation, advance demand information, maintenance, condition-based maintenance, spare parts inventory management

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Characterizing Order Processes of (s,S) and (r,nQ) Policies

KU Leuven - Faculty of Economics and Business Working Paper No. KBI_1309
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Jun 2013
Ann Noblesse, Robert N. Boute, Marc Lambrecht and Benny Van Houdt
KU Leuven, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, KU Leuven, Research Center for Operations Management, Faculty of Economics and Business and University of Antwerp
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Inventory policy, Batching, Bullwhip effect, Stochastic processes