作者：Lim, Yun Fong; Wu, Yue
作者单位：Singapore Management University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：It is challenging to maximize and maintain productivity of a U-line with discrete stations under the impact of variability. This is because maximizing productivity requires assigning workers to suitable tasks and maintaining productivity requires sufficient flexibility in task assignment to absorb the impact of variability. To achieve this goal, we propose an operating protocol to coordinate workers on the U-line. Under the protocol the system can be configured such that its productivity is ma...
作者：Tang, Sammi Y.; Gurnani, Haresh; Gupta, Diwakar
作者单位：University of Miami; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Supply disruptions are all too common in supply chains. To mitigate delivery risk, buyers may either source from multiple suppliers or offer incentives to their preferred supplier to improve its process reliability. These incentives can be either direct (investment subsidy) or indirect (inflated order quantity). In this study, we present a series of models to highlight buyers' and suppliers' optimal parameter choices. Our base-case model has deterministic buyer demand and two possibilities for...
