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作者：He, Xiuli; Prasad, Ashutosh; Sethi, Suresh P.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Cooperative (co-op) advertising is an important instrument for aligning manufacturer and retailer decisions in supply chains. In this, the manufacturer announces a co-op advertising policy, i.e., a participation rate that specifies the percentage of the retailer's advertising expenditure that it will provide. In addition, it also announces the wholesale price. In response, the retailer chooses its optimal advertising and pricing policies. We model this supply chain problem as a stochastic Stac...
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作者：Hopp, Wallace J.; Iravani, Seyed M. R.; Liu, Fang
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Northwestern University
摘要：Although white-collar work is of vast importance to the economy, the operations management (OM) literature has focused largely on traditional blue-collar work. In an effort to stimulate more OM research into the design, control, and management of white-collar work systems, this paper provides a systematic review of disparate streams of research relevant to understanding white-collar work from an operations perspective. Our review classifies research according to its relevance to white-collar w...
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作者：Fu, Michael C.; Lele, Shreevardhan; Vossen, Thomas W. M.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：The economic approach to determining the optimal control limits of control charts requires estimating the gradient of the expected cost function. Simulation is a very general methodology for estimating the expected costs, but for estimating the gradient, straightforward finite difference estimators can be inefficient. We demonstrate an alternative approach based on smoothed perturbation analysis (SPA), also known as conditional Monte Carlo. Numerical results and consequent design insights are ...
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作者：Bichescu, Bogdan C.; Fry, Michael J.; Polak, George G.
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University System of Ohio; Wright State University Dayton
摘要：We model a situation where a firm wishes to balance workload requirements by creating a portfolio of recurrent insourcing and outsourcing contracts. We use harmonic analysis to decompose an input workload profile into a portfolio of insourcing and outsourcing contracts using rectangular-wave basis functions to better achieve some desired constant workload level. However, this initial selection of contracts may result in impractical options. Therefore, we also develop mathematical programs usin...
