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作者：Inderfurth, Karl; Kleber, Rainer
作者单位：Otto von Guericke University
摘要：After-sales service is a major source of profit for many original equipment manufacturers in industries with durable products. Successful engagement in after-sales service improves customer loyalty and allows for competitive differentiation through superior service like an extended service period during which customers are guaranteed to be provided with service parts. Inventory management during this period is challenging due to the substantial uncertainty concerning demand over a long time ho...
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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：Krishnan, Viswanathan
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：The field of Production and Operations Management (POM) is increasingly perceived as a rigorous but narrow field, antiquated and not very relevant to the current challenges and concerns of managers in job-creating growth companies vital to our economies. I argue that a narrower positioning of POM in the past is responsible for its perceived limited utility to growth firms and global economies. POM at its core is about doing more with less, which is very well aligned with the context and needs ...
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作者：Han, Chaodong; Dong, Yan; Dresner, Martin
作者单位：University System of Maryland; Towson University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Realizing potential benefits from emerging market penetration requires firms to address inherent supply chain challenges. A major challenge is for firms to manage costly inventories to address demand and supply risks in emerging markets. However, emerging market penetration may offer opportunities for firms to lower inventory levels, reduce costs, and improve operating performance. Using data for 482 manufacturing firms over the 5-year period, 20032007, obtained from the COMPUSTAT Industrial a...
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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：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：Thomas, L. Joseph (Joe)
作者单位：Cornell University
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作者：Kostamis, Dimitris
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：I consider a channel with one manufacturer selling the same product to two retailers engaged in imperfect competition. The retailers are asymmetric because one has a lower marginal selling cost (or a higher demand potential) than the other. I design the manufacturer's optimal selling mechanism, whereby the manufacturer must offer the same contract options to both retailers. I fully characterize the manufacturer's optimal selling mechanism for varying degrees of retailer asymmetry and competiti...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Ozdemir, Oznur; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Akdeniz University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：In this study, we compare two common forms of product take-back legislation implementation: (i) manufacturer-operated systems, where the state imposes certain take-back objectives on manufacturers, and (ii) state-operated systems, where manufacturers or consumers finance take-back through recovery fees. We show that their impacts on different stakeholders, that is, social welfare, manufacturers, consumers, and the environment, can be significantly different and stakeholder preferences for thes...
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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...
