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作者：Anily, Shoshana; Haviv, Moshe
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：We consider production and service systems that consist of parallel lines of two types: (i) M/M/1 lines and (ii) lines that have no buffers (loss systems). Each line is assumed to be controlled by a dedicated supervisor. The management measures the effectiveness of the supervisors by the long run expected cost of their line. Unbalanced lines cause congestion and bottlenecks, large variation in output, unnecessary wastes and, ultimately, high operating costs. Thus, the supervisors are expected ...
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作者：Hahler, Stefan; Fleischmann, Moritz
作者单位：University of Mannheim
摘要：Most recommerce providers have moved to a quality-dependent process for the acquisition of used products. They acquire the products via websites at which product holders submit upfront quality statements and receive quality-dependent acquisition prices for their used devices. Motivated by this development of reverse logistics practice, the aim of this study is to analyze the product assessment process of a recommerce provider in detail. To this end, we first propose a sequential bargaining mod...
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作者：Honhon, Dorothee; Pan, Xiajun Amy
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：We consider a firm managing a category of vertically differentiated goods, that is, products which differ with respect to an attribute for which all consumers prefer more to less. The goods can be sold individually, in which case they are referred to as components, or in bundles. The firm chooses the assortment of components and bundles and their selling prices to maximize profit. We show that each bundling strategy (pure components, pure bundling or mixed bundling) can be optimal and obtain c...
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作者：De, Prabuddha; Hao, Lin; Li, Yung-Ming; Tan, Yong
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Notre Dame; National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Tsinghua University
摘要：In this paper, we study quality-of-service (QoS) based pricing schemes that serve as incentive mechanisms to induce sharing behaviors in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. We incorporate operational QoS metrics into users' utility functions and demonstrate how they affect individual users' content sharing decisions. Using a game-theoretic model, our study reveals how organizations respond to the changes of operational QoS metrics in their design of pricing schemes for various business objectives at ...
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作者：Agrawal, Anupam; Muthulingam, Suresh; Rajapakshe, Tharanga
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：In the automotive industry, many firms source key components from different suppliers, even though the components may function interdependently. In this study, we investigate how component level interdependence impacts quality performance and analyze how various operational factors moderate this relation. We synthesize information from several case studies to model the quality challenges faced by an automotive firm. For several sub-assemblies that go into its products, the firm sourced key com...
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作者：Dong, Lingxiu; Kouvelis, Panos; Tian, Zhongjun
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：Discretionary commonality is a form of operational flexibility used in multi-product manufacturing environments. Consider a case where a firm produces and sells two products. Without discretionary commonality, each product is made through a unique combination of input and production capacity. With discretionary commonality, one of the inputs could be used for producing both products, and one of the production capacities could be used to process different inputs for producing one of the product...
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作者：Jia, Justin; Zhao, Hui
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Drug shortages have been a major challenge facing the US pharmaceutical industry and government in recent years. Although the problem has drawn tremendous attention from the government and media, limited academic research has been devoted to this problem, and few solutions have been proposed based on rigorous research. This study addresses the drug shortage problem from a supply chain perspective, a key aspect missing in the literature, and proposes to mitigate shortages through drug purchase ...
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作者：Wang, Lan; Cai, Gangshu (George); Tsay, Andy A.; Vakharia, Asoo J.
作者单位：California State University System; California State University East Bay; Santa Clara University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：A key attribute of a remanufacturing strategy is the division of labor in the reverse channel, especially whether remanufacturing is performed in-house or outsourced. We investigate this decision for a retailer who accepts returns of a remanufacturable product. Our formulation considers the cost structures of the two strategies, uncertainty in the input quality of the collected/returned used products, consumer willingness-to-pay for remanufactured product, the extent to which the remanufacture...
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作者：Tang, Wenjie; Girotra, Karan
作者单位：National University of Singapore; INSEAD Business School
摘要：We study the use of advance purchase discount (APD) contracts to incentivize a retailer to share demand information with a dual-sourcing wholesaler. We analyze such contracts in terms of two practical considerations that are relevant in this context but have been overlooked by previous work that has largely studied the direct offer of APD to customers: the retailer's information acquisition cost and the wholesaler's limited information about that cost. The wholesaler's limited knowledge of the...
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作者：Ullrich, Kristoph K. R.; Transchel, Sandra
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; Frankfurt School Finance & Management
摘要：We provide empirical evidence that the volatility of inventory productivity relative to the volatility of demand is a predictor of future stock returns in a sample of publicly listed U.S. retailers over the period 1985-2013. This key performance indicator, entitled demand-supply mismatch (DSM), captures the fact that low variation in inventory productivity relative to variation in demand is indicative of the superior synchronization of demand- and supply-side operations. Applying the Fama and ...
