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作者：Zhao, Xuan
作者单位：Wilfrid Laurier University
摘要：We investigate a supply chain system with a common supplier selling to downstream retailers who are engaged in both price and inventory competition. We establish the existence and uniqueness of the pure-strategy Nash equilibrium for the retailer game and study how a supplier can coordinate the system to achieve the best performance. Our main conclusions are as follows: First, a buyback contract can be used to coordinate retailers competing on both price and inventory in a sense that optimal re...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Guide, V. Daniel R., Jr.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; INSEAD Business School
摘要：T his paper provides a critical review of analytic research on the business economics of product reuse inspired by industrial practice. Insights and critical assumptions are provided for each paper. We further classify the research into four streams: industrial engineering/operations research, design, strategy, and behavioral, and present a framework linking these streams. We find that some modeling assumptions risk being institutionalized, and suggest a renewed exploration of industrial pract...
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作者：Geismar, H. Neil; Chan, Lap Mui Ann; Dawande, Milind; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：W e consider the problem of scheduling operations in bufferless robotic cells that produce identical parts using either single-gripper or dual-gripper robots. The objective is to find a cyclic sequence of robot moves that minimizes the long-run average time to produce a part or, equivalently, maximizes the throughput. Obtaining an efficient algorithm for an optimum k-unit cyclic solution (k >= 1) has been a longstanding open problem. For both single-gripper and dual-gripper cells, the approxim...
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作者：Li, Zhaolin; Gao, Long
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University of Sydney; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：T he process of introducing new and phasing out old products is called product rollover. This paper considers a periodic-review inventory system consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer, where the manufacturer introduces new and improved products over an infinite planning horizon using the solo-roll strategy. We consider two scenarios: (1) the manufacturer does not share the upstream information about new-product introduction with the retailer and (2) the manufacturer shares the information...
