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作者：Shao, Jing; Krishnan, Harish; McCormick, S. Thomas
作者单位：University of International Business & Economics; University of British Columbia
摘要：Although there is a rich literature on single product distribution in decentralized supply chains, the incentive problems that arise in. distributing a product line have largely not been investigated. In practice, most manufacturers distribute a line of products with different features and qualities and not just a single product. Consider a manufacturer who distributes a product line through competing downstream retailers. In this setting, we investigate how and why the retailers' price and in...
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作者：Gilland, Wendell G.; Heese, H. Sebastian
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Customers who face a stockout situation often decide to purchase a different product in the same category. We analyze the resulting dynamic substitution problem in a retail environment, where customers serve themselves from the store shelves, such that the sequence of customer arrivals affects how scarce products are allocated to customers. We consider a setting with constrained shelf space, and we study how a retailer should optimally allocate such space between substitute products. We charac...
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作者：Kraft, Tim; Erhun, Feryal; Carlson, Robert C.; Rafinejad, Dariush
作者单位：University of Virginia; Stanford University
摘要：As public awareness of environmental hazards increases, a growing concern for corporations is the potential negative environmental impact of their products and the chemicals these products contain. In this study, we analyze the optimal decisions of a firm when a substance within its product is identified as potentially hazardous. Although the substance is not currently regulated, regulation may occur in the future. Therefore, the firm must devise a strategy for the development and implementati...
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作者：Jiang, Li
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：I consider a setting of two firms and one capacity agent. Each firm serves a primary market, and the capacity agent sustains a common market to draw demand for capacity from the external firms. The firms can partner with the capacity agent under her contract to serve the common market. When they use the common market mainly as an outlet for their unused capacities, the capacity agent will only specify a variable fee for each capacity unit deployed through her, and prefer to partner with one fi...
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作者：Tripathy, Anshuman; Eppinger, Steven D.
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This study describes (through an application) a novel approach toward organizing work distribution across globally distributed design and development centers of a product development (PD) organization. While there exist several studies (and modeling applications) for work distribution and allocation for manufacturing and supply chain networks, those related to product development organizations are limited to qualitative suggestions such as offshoring of modular tasks. However, most PD efforts ...
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作者：Klabjan, Diego; Simchi-Levi, David; Song, Miao
作者单位：Northwestern University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Hong Kong
摘要：Traditional approaches in inventory control first estimate the demand distribution among a predefined family of distributions based on data fitting of historical demand observations, and then optimize the inventory control using the estimated distributions. These approaches often lead to fragile solutions whenever the preselected family of distributions was inadequate. In this article, we propose a minimax robust model that integrates data fitting and inventory optimization for the single-item...
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作者：Huh, Woonghee Tim; Lall, Upmanu
作者单位：University of British Columbia; Columbia University; Columbia University
摘要：The changing climate and concerns over food security are prompting a new look at the supply chain reliability of products derived from agriculture, and the potential role of contract farming as a mechanism to address climate and price risk while contributing toward crop diversification and water use efficiency is also emerging. In this study, the decision problem of a farmer associated with allocating his land among different crops with varying water requirements is considered, given that a su...
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作者：Roh, Joseph A.; Whipple, Judith M.; Boyer, Kenneth K.
作者单位：Texas Christian University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：As the global competitive landscape intensifies, firms have looked to their supply chain organizations to improve cost, visibility, and cycle time performance across functions, products, and markets. As a result, the scope of supply chain related operations have increasingly cut across organizational boundaries. To understand and capture such cross-organizational activities, researchers have broadened the focus of their studies and included multiple stakeholders in their analysis (e.g., integr...
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作者：Wang, Yulan; Niu, Baozhuang; Guo, Pengfei
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Sun Yat Sen University
摘要：This study investigates a supply chain comprising an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and a contract manufacturer (CM), in which the CM acts as both upstream partner and downstream competitor to the OEM. The two parties can engage in one of three Cournot competition games: a simultaneous game, a sequential game with the OEM as the Stackelberg leader, and a sequential game with the CM as the Stackelberg leader. On the basis of these three basic games, this study investigates the two partie...
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作者：Feng, Qi; Lu, Lauren Xiaoyuan
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Despite the spread of cost-driven outsourcing practices, academic research cautions that suppliers' cost advantage may weaken manufacturers' bargaining positions in negotiating outsourcing agreements, thereby hurting their profitability. In this study, we attempt to further understand the strategic impact of low-cost outsourcing on manufacturers' profitability by investigating the contractual form of outsourcing agreements and the industry structure of the upstream supply market. We consider a...
