Chih-Te Yang is a Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Tamkang University in Taiwan. He received his PhD from the Graduate Institute of Management Sciences at Tamkang University, Taiwan, in 2007. His research interests include production/inventory control and supply chain management. He has published more than 60 articles in various journals, including International Journal of Production Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Computers & Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Systems Science, Journal of Cleaner Production, TOP, Central European Journal of Operations Research, and European Journal of Industrial Engineering.