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Stephen C. Graves

Stephen C. Graves

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
54
Citations
19071
World Ranking
761
National Ranking
337

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
53
Citations
15718
World Ranking
3314
National Ranking
976

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems and supply chains.

Overview

Stephen C. Graves is affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Engineering, with a focus on Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The main topics of their work include Supply Chain and Inventory Management, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management, Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Quality and Supply Management, Reliability and Maintenance Optimization, and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics.

Graves has published in several venues, frequently appearing in the SSRN Electronic Journal, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, and Management Science.

Recent papers include:

  • Supply chain challenges in the post-Covid Era, 2022, Production and Operations Management
  • How to think about planned lead times, 2021, International Journal of Production Research

Other notable publications listed alongside their work include "Development and analysis of digital twins of production systems" (2023, International Journal of Production Research), "Item Aggregation and Column Generation for Online-Retail Inventory Placement" (2020, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management), and "Warranty Matching in a Consumer Electronics Closed-Loop Supply Chain" (2020, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management).

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Graves include Brian Tomlin, Sean P. Willems, Mark Brennan, Jonars Spielberg, and Bish Sanyal, each associated with multiple joint publications.

In 2018, Graves was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems and supply chains.

Best Publications

  • A Dynamic Model of the Duration of the Customer's Relationship with a Continuous Service Provider: The Role of Satisfaction

    Stephen C. Graves;David B. Kletter;William B. Hetzel;Ruth N. Bolton

  • A Review of Production Scheduling

    Stephen C. Graves

  • Principles on the benefits of manufacturing process flexibility

    William C. Jordan;Stephen C. Graves

  • Optimal Storage Assignment in Automatic Warehousing Systems

    Warren H. Hausman;Leroy B. Schwarz;Stephen C. Graves

  • A Multi-Echelon Inventory Model for a Repairable Item with One-for-One Replenishment

    Stephen C. Graves

  • A Single-Item Inventory Model for a Nonstationary Demand Process

    Mahmoud H. Alrefaei;Sigrún Andradóttir;Stephen C. Graves

  • Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Supply Chains

    Stephen C. Graves;Sean P. Willems

  • Technology portfolio management: optimizing interdependent projects over multiple time periods

    M.W. Dickinson;A.C. Thornton;S. Graves

  • Storage-Retrieval Interleaving in Automatic Warehousing Systems

    Stephen C. Graves;Warren H. Hausman;Leroy B. Schwarz

  • Process Flexibility in Supply Chains

    Stephen C. Graves;Brian T. Tomlin

  • Optimizing the Supply Chain Configuration for New Products

    Stephen C. Graves;Sean P. Willems

  • A Dynamic Model for Requirements Planning with Application to Supply Chain Optimization

    Stephen C. Graves;David B. Kletter;William B. Hetzel

  • Using Lagrangean Techniques to Solve Hierarchical Production Planning Problems

    Stephen C. Graves

  • Supply chain management : design, coordination and operation

    A.G. de Kok;S.C. Graves

  • Remanufacturing and Energy Savings

    Timothy G. Gutowski;Sahil Sahni;Avid Boustani;Stephen C. Graves

  • The Travelling Salesman Problem and Related Problems

    Bezalel Gavish;Stephen C. Graves

  • A Tactical Planning Model for a Job Shop

    Stephen C. Graves

  • Little's Law

    John D. C. Little;Stephen C. Graves

  • A multiechelon inventory model with fixed replenishment intervals

    Stephen C. Graves

  • Supply Chain Design: Safety Stock Placement and Supply Chain Configuration.

    Stephen C. Graves;Sean P. Willems

  • Safety stocks in manufacturing systems

    Stephen C. Graves

Frequent Co-Authors

Bezalel Gavish
Bezalel Gavish Southern Methodist University
Alan Scheller-Wolf
Alan Scheller-Wolf Carnegie Mellon University
Stefan Minner
Stefan Minner Technical University of Munich
ManMohan S. Sodhi
ManMohan S. Sodhi City, University of London
Gérard P. Cachon
Gérard P. Cachon University of Pennsylvania
Z. John Zhang
Z. John Zhang University of Pennsylvania

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