作者：Grahovac, J; Chakravarty, A
作者单位：Tulane University
摘要：The emergence of carriers that deliver items to geographically dispersed destinations quickly rand at a reasonable cost,: combined with the low cost of sharing information through networked databases, has opened up new opportunities to better manage inventory. We investigate these benefits in the context of a supply chain in which a manufacturer supplies;expensive, low-demand items to vertically integrated or autonomous retailers via one central depot. The manufacturer's lead time is assumed t...
作者：Raghunathan, S
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：In a recent paper, Lee, So, and Tang (2000) showed that in a two-level supply chain with non-stationary AR(1) end demand, the manufacturer benefits significantly when the retailer shares point-of-sale (POS) demand data. We show in this paper, analytically and through simulation, that the manufacturer's benefit is insignificant when the parameters of the AR(1) process are known to both parties, as in Lee, So, and Tang (LST). The key-reason for the difference:between our results and those of LST...
