Zahra Hosseinifard

Service-Level Agreement with Dynamic Inventory Policy: The Effect of the Performance Review Period and the Incentive Structure

Zahra Hosseinifard, Lusheng Shao, Srinivas Talluri

Journal article  |  2021  |  DECISION SCIENCES

Performance measures are often outlined in the section of the service-level agreement (SLA) of the contract between a supplier and..

Disruption risk management in service-level agreements

H Jahani, B Abbasi, Z Hosseinifard, M Fadaki, JP Minas

Journal article  |  2021  |  International Journal of Production Research

This paper studies the impact of capacity/inventory disruption on a supplier's cost, where the supplier has heterogeneous service ..

Allocation Policies to Fulfil Heterogeneous Service Requirements under Resource Pooling

Babak Abbasi, Masih Fadaki, Zahra Hosseinifard, Hamed Jahani, Douglas J Thomas

Journal article  |  2020  |  DECISION SCIENCES

Designing effective settings for performance measures (e.g., fill rate) of a service-level agreement (SLA) is challenging. This ch..

Predicting solutions of large-scale optimization problems via machine learning: A case study in blood supply chain management

B Abbasi, T Babaei, Z Hosseinifard, K Smith-Miles, M Dehghani

Journal article  |  2020  |  Computers and Operations Research

Practical constrained optimization models are often large, and solving them in a reasonable time is a challenge in many applicatio..

Performance-based control of variability and tolerance in off-site manufacture and assembly: optimization of penalty on poor production quality

Mehrdad Arashpour, Amin Heidarpour, Ali Akbar Nezhad, Zahra Hosseinifard, Nicholas Chileshe, Reza Hosseini

Journal article  |  2020  |  Construction Management and Economics

Defects and quality problems in off-site manufacturing of building parts are caused by different variables. Subsequently, rework i..

A basin-wide approach for water allocation and dams location-allocation

Reza Roozbahani, Babak Abbasi, Sergei Schreider, Zahra Hosseinifard

Journal article  |  2020  |  Annals of Operations Research

Construction of new dams in undeveloped transboundary basins causes two serious disputes between the stakeholders: conflicts over ..

Postdisaster Volatility of Blood Donations in an Unsteady Blood Supply Chain*

Zahra Hosseinifard, Babak Abbasi, Masih Fadaki, Nigel M Clay

Journal article  |  2020  |  Decision Sciences

The stochastic behavior of both transfusion (demand) and blood donations (collection) is a challenge for the blood supply chain. A..

Why A Blood Donation Isn’t Just For Christmas

Seyedehzahra Hosseinifard

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

While urgent calls for blood donations spike during the holiday season, people need to be reminded to keep donating in order to pr..

Finite time horizon fill rate analysis for multiple customer cases

B Abbasi, Z Hosseinifard, O Alamri, D Thomas, JP Minas

Journal article  |  2018  |  OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

The item fill rate – defined as the fraction of demand that is immediately satisfied from on-hand stock – is commonly used as a pe..

The inventory centralization impacts on sustainability of the blood supply chain

Zahra Hosseinifard, Babak Abbasi

Journal article  |  2018  |  COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH

This paper studies the significance of inventory centralization at the second echelon of a two-echelon supply chain with perishabl..