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Melvin Drent

Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management

P.O. Box 90153

Tilburg, 5000 LE

Netherlands

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Mitigating Financial Risk in Maintenance Contracts for Heterogeneous Machines

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Mitigating Financial Risk in Maintenance Contracts for Heterogeneous Machines

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Sep 2025
Stijn Loeys, Melvin Drent, Robert N. Boute, Collin Drent, Katrien Antonio and Katrien Antonio
KU Leuven, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB), Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) - Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences and KU LeuvenUniversity of Amsterdam
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Preventive Maintenance, Service Contracts, Bayesian Learning, Condition Monitoring Mitigating Financial Risk in Maintenance Contracts

Mitigating Financial Risk in Maintenance Contracts for Heterogeneous Machines

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Sep 2025
Stijn Loeys, Melvin Drent, Robert Boute, Collin Drent, Katrien Antonio and Katrien Antonio
KU Leuven, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) - Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences and KU LeuvenUniversity of Amsterdam
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Preventive Maintenance, Service Contracts, Bayesian Learning, Condition Monitoring

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Perishable Inventory Management Under Freshness-Dependent Demand and Backroom Effect

Number of pages: 1 Posted: 14 Dec 2024
Ilgin Efe Senyuva, Melvin Drent and Zumbul Atan
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) - Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) - Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences
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Retail, Freshness-dependent demand, Backroom operations, Threshold policy

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Leveraging Trade Credit to Expand Informal Consumer Credit in Base-of-the-Pyramid Retail

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Jun 2026
Melvin Drent, Rafael Escamilla, Sebastián Villa, Josue Velazquez Martinez and Jan C. Fransoo
Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, Arizona State University (ASU) - Supply Chain Management, University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Center for Transportation & Logistics and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management
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Trade Credit, Nanostores, Emerging Markets, Newsvendor

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Expediting in Two-Echelon Spare Parts Inventory Systems

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2021/067, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, volume 23, issue 6, 2021[10.1287/msom.2020.0888]
Posted: 29 Apr 2025
Melvin Drent and Joachim Arts
Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and University of Luxembourg

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Column generation, Column generationExpediting, Column generationExpeditingInventory, Column generationExpeditingInventoryMulti-echelon

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Efficient Emission Reduction Through Dynamic Supply Mode Selection

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2023/072, European Journal of Operational Research, volume 311, issue 3, 2023[10.1016/j.ejor.2023.06.004]
Posted: 29 Apr 2025
Melvin Drent, Poulad Moradi and Joachim Arts
Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Luxembourg

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Carbon emissions, Carbon emissionsInventory, Carbon emissionsInventoryMulti-item, Carbon emissionsInventoryMulti-itemPolicy comparison

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Real-Time Integrated Learning and Decision Making for Cumulative Shock Degradation

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2023/070, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, volume 25, issue 1, 2023[10.1287/msom.2022.1149]
Posted: 29 Apr 2025
Collin Drent, Melvin Drent, Joachim Arts and Stella Kapodistria
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) - Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, University of Luxembourg and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Bayesian learning, Bayesian learningdata-driven operations, Bayesian learningdata-driven operationsmaintenance, Bayesian learningdata-driven operationsmaintenanceoptimal policies

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Condition-Based Production for Stochastically Deteriorating Systems: Optimal Policies and Learning

MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Research Paper No. 2024/063, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, volume 26, issue 3, 2024[10.1287/msom.2022.0473]
Posted: 29 Apr 2025
Collin Drent, Melvin Drent and Joachim Arts
Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) - Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and University of Luxembourg

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Bayesian learning, maintenance, Markov decision process