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作者：de Vries, Harwin; van de Klundert, Joris; Wagelmans, Albert P. M.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College of Business & Entrepreneurship; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：The population of truck drivers plays a key role in the spread of HIV and other infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. Truck drivers thereby affect the health and lives of many, but also suffer from poor health and significantly reduced life expectancy themselves. Due to professional circumstances, their health service needs are generally not well addressed. Therefore, the non-governmental organization North Star Alliance builds a network of healthcare facilities along the largest trucking...
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作者：Hwang, Elina H.; Krackhardt, David
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Effective operations require the coordination of distributed knowledge. Division and distance across teams and specialties form barriers to communication, creating insulated pockets of knowledge along geographic and specialty borders. Such fragmentation can hamper a company's ability to fully utilize existing knowledge, potentially hurting its productivity in the long run. As such, many companies have created internal online knowledge communities, in which employees can exchange solutions in v...
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作者：Sharma, Shrutivandana; Abouee-Mehrizi, Hossein; Sartor, Giorgio
作者单位：Singapore University of Technology & Design; University of Waterloo; SINTEF
摘要：Inventory management in most practical settings faces challenges due to various restrictions on storage and replenishment of products. These restrictions may be posed by budget availability, different production/supply schedules for different products, and limited storage space shared by a number of products-very common in retail, food, and the pharmaceutical industry. Motivated by this, we investigate in this study how simultaneous restrictions on shared storage capacity and product-specific ...
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作者：Jiang, Juncai; Wang, Yu
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; California State University System; California State University Long Beach
摘要：Ideation contests are commonly used across public and private sectors to generate new ideas for solving problems, creating designs, and improving products or processes. In such a contest, a firm or an organization (the seeker) outsources an ideation task online to a distributed population of independent agents (solvers) in the form of an open call. Solvers compete to exert efforts and the one with the best solution wins a bounty. In evaluating solutions, the seeker typically has subjective tas...
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作者：Kouvelis, Panagiotis (Panos)
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
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作者：Emadikhiav, Mohsen; Bergman, David; Day, Robert
作者单位：University of Connecticut
摘要：We study the planning and scheduling of order shipments among laboratories of an instrument-calibration company. To address a generic version of the company's combined routing and scheduling problem, we introduce a model variant with simultaneous pickups and deliveries in which consistency of site visits is also desired. We provide alternative formulations of the problem and propose branch-and-check and branch-and-price implementations, with an analysis of the instance characteristics for whic...
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作者：Avci, Harun; Gokbayrak, Kagan; Nadar, Emre
作者单位：Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University
摘要：We consider a discrete-time infinite-horizon inventory system with non-stationary demand, full backlogging, and deterministic replenishment lead time. Demand arrives according to a probability distribution conditional on the state of the world that undergoes Markovian transitions over time. But the actual state of the world can only be imperfectly estimated based on past demand data. We model the inventory replenishment problem for this system as a Markov decision process (MDP) with an uncount...
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作者：Demirezen, Emre M.; Kumar, Subodha; Shetty, Bala
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：We study a setting where the nature of the collaboration necessitates two partner firms working together, which is often the case in supply chain and information technology (IT) environments. We consider that both firms get ongoing value from the project and the effort levels of both parties are dynamic. In this setting, one of the partners (say, the first partner) decides the terms of the payment it extends to the second partner in order to maximize the value it gets from the collaboration. W...
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作者：Huang, Yiwei; Zhu, Yunxia; Kumar, Subodha; Shetty, Bala; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：We study a coin supply chain problem in the context of improving efficiency. While most consumer products are distributed in one direction, coins are recirculated and reused through the economy. The Federal Reserve System (FRS), the central banking system of the United States, plays a crucial role in managing the U.S. coin supply chain (CSC). It spends a significant fraction of its annual budget on operating the U.S. CSC in order to provide banking services to depository institutions (DIs) and...
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作者：Hastig, Gabriella M.; Sodhi, ManMohan S.
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London
摘要：We seek to guide operations management (OM) research on the implementation of supply chain traceability systems by identifying business requirements and the factors critical to successful implementation. We first motivate the need for implementing traceability systems in two very different industries-cobalt mining and pharmaceuticals-and present business requirements and critical success factors for implementation. Next, we describe how we carried out thematic analysis of practitioner and scho...
