“…Recently, these optimization models have been integrated with inspection plan, production and inventory control, and supply chain management to obtain the optimal parameters in the system under study, e.g. Carlsson [2,3], Pulak and Al-Sultan [22], Roan et al [27], Bowling et al [1], Chen [4], Chen and Lai [5], Darwish [7], Jeang [14][15][16], Jeang and Lin [17], Darwish and Duffuaa [10], Darwish and Abdulmalek [9], Duffuaa and El-Ga'aly [11,12], Darwish et al [8], and so forth.…”