2023

最新文章

• How much do customer ordering practices drive medical supplies distribution (in)efficiency for primary care markets? AI翻译
  作者：Shockley, Jeff; Merrick, Jason R. W.; Liu, Xiaojin; Smith, Jeffery S.
  作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University; Virginia Commonwealth University
  摘要：Companies across many industries seek to understand how customer ordering impacts supply chain distribution performance. In the US medical supplies industry, wholesalers are uniquely positioned to use information about downstream customers to study and potentially influence buyer policies and practices due to their industry scale and data visibility. In this study, wholesale medical supplies buyers are first examined based on their ordering practices over a 2-year window using the theoretical ...
• Multiperiod channel coordination in franchise networks: The necessity of internal inventory trading and franchiser involvement AI翻译
  作者：Li, Rong; Yang, Liangbin; Yue, Xiaohang
  作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; Syracuse University
  摘要：Facing consumers' growing demand for fast order fulfillment, it is important yet challenging for franchise companies to best incentivize frequent inventory sharing among their independent franchise retailers or dealers to achieve channel coordination. Past literature has only addressed such channel coordination for one-time inventory sharing using contractual agreements, which unfortunately do not work for frequent inventory sharing. In this study, we consider multiple inventory-sharing opport...
• Optimal inventory control with cyclic fixed order costs AI翻译
  作者：Taube, Florian; Minner, Stefan
  作者单位：Technical University of Munich; Technical University of Munich
  摘要：We consider a periodic review single-item inventory model under stochastic demand. Every m periods, in the regular order period, fixed order costs are K. In the periods in-between, the intraperiods, higher fixed order costs of L>K$L>K$ apply. The literature on optimal inventory policies under fixed order costs does not account for these time-dependent fixed order costs. By generalizing existing proofs for optimal inventory policies, we close this gap in inventory theory. The optimal inventory ...
• Bridging the gap: Applying analytics to address gender pay inequity AI翻译
  作者：Anderson, David; Bjarnadottir, Margret Vilborg; Ross, David Gaddis
  作者单位：Villanova University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
  摘要：Employers are under increasing pressure from regulators, investors, and their own employees to address gender pay inequity in their compensation structure. However, managers tasked with measuring and closing gender and other pay gaps have few helpful quantitative tools at their disposal. We design and implement an algorithm that measures whether an employer has a pay gap and suggests salary adjustments to close it, all while supporting the employer's goals with respect to equity, culture, and ...
• The role of volunteer experience on performance on online volunteering platforms AI翻译
  作者：Urrea, Gloria; Yoo, Eunae
  作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
  摘要：Online volunteering platforms allow humanitarian organizations (HOs) to recruit volunteers to work remotely on projects of varying urgency. While removing time and space constraints enables HOs to scale up their volunteer force, HOs must manage greater heterogeneity in volunteers' experience. We investigate empirically how volunteers' experience impacts two performance metrics on online volunteering platforms: project completion rate and volunteer retention. In addition, we examine the conditi...
• Partially partitioned templating strategies for outpatient specialty practices AI翻译
  作者：Bai, Miao; Berg, Bjorn; Sir, Esra Sisikoglu; Sir, Mustafa Y.
  作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  摘要：Templating strategies specify policies on capacity allocation and appointment booking, which are central to patient access management in outpatient specialty practices (SPs). In the widely implemented partitioned templating strategy, appointment capacity is allocated exclusively to each patient group defined by a combination of patient attributes and medical conditions, which often results in utilization challenges for SPs. Motivated by problems faced by an SP within a large academic medical c...
• Impact of pandemics on humanitarian retailing operations: A voucher's case AI翻译
  作者：Mohamadi, Navid; Bakhishi, Hataw; Transchel, Sandra; Besiou, Maria
  作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University
  摘要：In 2020, the world started a fight against a pandemic that has severely disrupted commercial and humanitarian supply chains. Humanitarian organizations (HOs), like the World Food Programme (WFP), adjusted their programs in order to manage this pandemic. One such program is cash and voucher assistance (CVA), which is used to bolster beneficiaries' freedom of choice regarding their consumption. In this vein, WFP supports local retailers to provide CVA to beneficiaries who do not have access to a...
• Managing presales with two payments and return policy when consumers are time-inconsistent AI翻译
  作者：Kuang, Yunjuan; Jiang, Li
  作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  摘要：We consider a firm using presales with two payments-including an upfront deposit and a postponed arrear-to sell a product to time-inconsistent consumers under various return policies. With the passage of time, consumers decide whether to preorder the product by paying the deposit, whether to settle the balance by paying the arrear by the due date, and, when returns are allowed, whether to return a fully paid product for a refund after its fitness is revealed. Canceling a preorder before settli...
• Customer segmentation and ex ante fairness: A queueing perspective AI翻译
  作者：Liu, Jian; Zhou, Yong-Pin; Chen, Jian
  作者单位：Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Tsinghua University
  摘要：In this study, we analyze how customer perceptions of ex ante unfairness affect a service provider that offers a priority service option. Customers differ in their waiting time costs, but that information is private to each customer. To address this issue and maximize revenue, the service provider offers a regular queue and a priority queue with an additional fee, thereby inducing the self-selection of customers into those two queues. The customers make their service-joining decision, based on...
• Unpacking the cognitive processes of the boundedly rational newsvendor AI翻译
  作者：Niranjan, Tarikere T.; Ghosalya, Narendra K.; Menon, Raveen R.; Rotaru, Kristian; Gavirneni, Srinagesh
  作者单位：Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay; Monash University; Monash University; Monash University; Cornell University
  摘要：We report on the findings of five controlled experiments that test the effectiveness of proposed interventions aiming to improve both the process and outcomes of decision making when performing the newsvendor task. We use eye-tracking technology aided by interviews to gain new insights into people's cognitive processes. Our results confirm that human newsvendors exhibit the tendency of mean-reverting demand prediction using past demand even when the demand is independent and identically distri...