Production and Operations Management

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• A Tale of Two Food Chains: The Duality of Practices on Well-being AI翻译
  作者：Roth, Aleda; Zheng, Yanchong
  作者单位：Clemson University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  摘要：In this paper, we honor Stanford University Professor Hau Lee, who is a great inspiration and thought leader in the supply chain and operations management (SC&OM) field. Our discussion centers around one of the most challenging SC&OM problems-food production, distribution, and consumption from dirt to table. We advocate and link our notions of emergent regenerative, organic food value chains (ROFVC) with quadruple-aim performance (QAP) that connects financial outcomes with ecological, human, a...
• Dynamic Inventory Allocation with Demand Learning for Seasonal Goods AI翻译
  作者：Nambiar, Mila; Simchi-Levi, David; Wang, He
  作者单位：Agency for Science Technology & Research (A*STAR); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
  摘要：We study a multi-period inventory allocation problem in a one-warehouse multiple-retailer setting with lost sales. At the start of a finite selling season, a fixed amount of inventory is available at the warehouse. Inventory can be allocated to the retailers over the course of the selling horizon (transshipment is not allowed). The objective is to minimize the total expected lost sales and holding costs. In each period, the decision maker can use the realized and possibly censored demand obser...
• Optimal Global Liner Service Procurement by Utilizing Liner Service Schedules AI翻译
  作者：Lee, Chung-Yee; Shu, Shengnan; Xu, Zhou
  作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  摘要：For global shippers (i.e., multinational manufacturers or retailers), strategic sourcing of container liner shipping services from ocean carriers is an important element of successful global supply chain management. We study how to utilize information about different ocean carriers' liner service schedules so that shippers can optimize their sourcing decisions over the selection of carriers to transport container cargoes around the world through multiple shipping lanes. We first introduce a de...
• Toward Resilient Agriculture Value Chains: Challenges and Opportunities AI翻译
  作者：Dong, Lingxiu
  作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
  摘要：Agriculture value chains are going through a paradigm shift, from efficiency-driven industrial agriculture to resilience-focused eco-friendly agriculture. The nature of the paradigm shift is, to a certain extent, similar to the transformation taking place in many other industries (Lee 2014); its impact on the environment is, however, far-reaching. This study intends to raise awareness of the challenges and trends in agriculture value chains and explores research opportunities through which ope...
• Impact of Organizational Structure on Development Strategy under Equity-Based Incentives AI翻译
  作者：Li, Zhaolin; Lu, Steven Q.; Ryan, Jennifer K.; Sun, Daewon
  作者单位：University of Sydney; University of Sydney; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; University of Notre Dame
  摘要：This study considers the product development process for a start-up that relies on equity-based incentives to motivate effort by vendors who are hired to contribute to the development process. We study how the organizational structure of the start-up affects the choice between sequential and concurrent development using a two-task model, in which both tasks must be completed for the start-up to earn revenue. We study several organizational structures, which differ in terms of task allocation, ...
• Leveraging Slack Capacity in IaaS Contract Cloud Services AI翻译
  作者：Nunez, Manuel A.; Bai, Xue; Du, Linna
  作者单位：University of Connecticut; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
  摘要：We study capacity planning in the context of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud services. Concretely, we propose models for optimal pricing and virtual machine allocation to maximize revenue while maintaining service reliability. Our models are based on current pricing schemes used by predominant cloud services providers in the market. These providers frequently face slack capacity and low utilization in resources, so that they require better planning in the allocation of non-revenue-ear...
• Discrete Convex Analysis and Its Applications in Operations: A Survey AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Xin; Li, Menglong
  作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  摘要：Discrete convexity, in particular,L-convexity andM-convexity, provides a critical opening to attack several classical problems in inventory theory, as well as many other operations problems that arise from more recent practices, for instance, appointment scheduling and bike sharing. As a powerful framework, discrete convex analysis is becoming increasingly popular in the literature. This review will survey the landscape of the approach. We start by introducing several key concepts, namely,L-co...
• Comments on Network Structure and Its Impact on Commodity Markets AI翻译
  作者：Tompaidis, Stathis
  作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
  摘要：I discuss the framework proposed by John Birge in Network Structure and Its Impact on Commodity Markets.
• Cooperative Advertising in a Dynamic Three-Echelon Supply Chain AI翻译
  作者：Kennedy, Adrian Patrick; Sethi, Suresh P.; Siu, Chi Chung; Yam, Sheung Chi Phillip
  作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
  摘要：We propose a model to assess the value of a distributor in a dynamic stochastic cooperative advertising supply chain in which a manufacturer wholesales its product to a distributor who in turn sells it to a retailer. Moreover and importantly, the distributor also intermediates the pricing and advertising decisions between the manufacturer and the retailer. For the resulting three-player hierarchical game formulation of the supply chain, we characterize the feedback Stackelberg equilibrium in t...
• Managing Commodity Stock-outs in Public Health Supply Chains in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis AI翻译
  作者：Karimi, Amir; Mishra, Anant; Natarajan, Karthik V.; Sinha, Kingshuk K.
  作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  摘要：Public health supply chains are channels through which health commodities are distributed among end clients. In developing countries, significant resource constraints hamper the effective and efficient delivery of health commodities, leading to supply chain failures such as stock-outs. While the prevalence of commodity stock-outs is well-acknowledged, there is little by way of systematic and rigorous empirical research that sheds light on the factors that drive such stock-outs in developing co...