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作者：Yang, Xiaodong; Cai, Gangshu (George); Ingene, Charles A.; Zhang, Jihong
作者单位：Shanghai University of International Business & Economics; Beijing Foreign Studies University; Santa Clara University; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：A manufacturer commonly distributes through a set of retailers who are authorized to sell its product; demand-enhancing services may also be provided by the manufacturer. These services may be granted to all authorized retailers (uniform service provision) or to a favored few authorized retailers (differential service provision). To determine when a manufacturer does-or does not-bestow equal service levels, we develop a model of one manufacturer selling through two competing retailers. We find...
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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：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...
