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作者：Thuerer, Matthias; Stevenson, Mark; Silva, Cristovao; Land, Martin J.; Fredendall, Lawrence D.; Melnyk, Steven A.
作者单位：Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos; Lancaster University; Universidade de Coimbra; University of Groningen; Clemson University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：A lead time that is short, predictable, and reliable is an increasingly important criterion in supplier selection. Although many companies may achieve this through lean implementation, high-variety manufacturers, for example, small and medium-sized make-to-order companies, have found that lean's planning and control techniques do not apply. This article outlines a planning and control concept known as workload control (WLC) that integrates customer enquiry management, including a due-date sett...
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作者：Hammami, Ramzi; Frein, Yannick
作者单位：ESC Rennes School of Business; Universite de Rennes; Communaute Universite Grenoble Alpes; Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble; Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要：We develop an inventory placement model in the context of general multi-echelon supply chains where the delivery lead time promised to the customer must be respected. The delivery lead time is calculated based on the available stocks of the different input and output products in the different facilities and takes into account the purchasing lead times, the manufacturing lead times, and the transportation lead times. We assume finite manufacturing capacities and consider the interactions of man...
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作者：Barz, Christiane; Kolisch, Rainer
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Technical University of Munich
摘要：We formulate a discrete time Markov decision process for a resource assignment problem for multi-skilled resources with a hierarchical skill structure to minimize the average penalty and waiting costs for jobs with different waiting costs and uncertain service times. In contrast to most queueing models, our application leads to service times that are known before the job is actually served but only after it is accepted and assigned to a server. We formulate the corresponding Markov decision pr...
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作者：Huang, Tingliang; Van Mieghem, Jan A.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Northwestern University
摘要：We consider firms that feature their products on the Internet but take orders offline. Click and order data are disjoint on such non-transactional websites, and their matching is error-prone. Yet, their time separation may allow the firm to react and improve its tactical planning. We introduce a dynamic decision support model that augments the classic inventory planning model with additional clickstream state variables. Using a novel data set of matched online clickstream and offline purchasin...
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作者：Gilbert, Stephen M.; Randhawa, Ramandeep S.; Sun, Haoying
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Southern California; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：We consider a setting in which consumers experience distinct instances of need for a durable product at random intervals. Each instance of need is associated with a random utility and the consumers are differentiated according to the frequency with which they experience such instances of need. We use our model of consumer utility to characterize the firm's optimal strategy of whether to sell, rent, or do a combination of both in terms of the transaction costs and consumers' usage characteristi...
