Production and Operations Management

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• Production Chain Disruptions: Inventory, Preparedness, and Insurance AI翻译
  作者：Dong, Lingxiu; Tang, Sammi Yu; Tomlin, Brian
  作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); University of Miami; Dartmouth College
  摘要：Disruptions that temporarily interrupt production pose a significant risk for manufacturing firms. To manage this risk, firms can purchase interruption insurance and/or deploy operational measures such as storing inventory or taking preparedness actions that reduce the expected interruption length. In this study, we explore inventory, preparedness, and insurance in a two-stage production chain that can experience disruptions at either the upstream or downstream stage. We analytically character...
• Initiating Supplier New Product Development Projects: A Behavioral Investigation AI翻译
  作者：Wuttke, David A.; Donohue, Karen; Siemsen, Enno
  作者单位：European Business School (EBS) University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
  摘要：While suppliers are often an excellent source of product innovation for buyers, their propensity to undertake or continue a product development project can be elusive. This study examines how characteristics of the innovation project, including the type of project revenue, type of cost uncertainty, and the contract frame, influence the decision to accept, and subsequently continue, an innovation project. Through a series of controlled behavioral experiments, we find that acceptance rates incre...
• Enhancing Kidney Supply Through Geographic Sharing in the United States AI翻译
  作者：Arikan, Mazhar; Ata, Baris; Friedewald, John J.; Parker, Rodney P.
  作者单位：University of Kansas; University of Chicago; Northwestern University; Feinberg School of Medicine; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
  摘要：The deceased-donor kidney allocation system suffers from a severe shortage of available organs. We illustrate a mechanism which can increase the supply of cadaveric kidneys in the United States. This supply increase exploits the fact that under the current organ allocation policy, some kidneys remain unprocured in some procurement areas but would be highly sought in other areas. The current kidney allocation policy procures within a donor service area (DSA) and offers these kidneys first to pa...
• A Capacity Allocation Planning Model for Integrated Care and Access Management AI翻译
  作者：Deglise-Hawkinson, Jivan; Helm, Jonathan E.; Huschka, Todd; Kaufman, David L.; Van Oyen, Mark P.
  作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Mayo Clinic; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：The prevailing first-come-first-served approach to outpatient appointment scheduling ignores differing urgency levels, leading to unnecessarily long waits for urgent patients. In data from a partner healthcare organization, we found in some departments that urgent patients were inadvertently waiting longer for an appointment than non-urgent patients. This study develops a capacity allocation optimization methodology that reserves appointment slots based on urgency in a complicated, integrated ...
• Missed Opportunities in Preventing Hospital Readmissions: Redesigning Post-Discharge Checkup Policies AI翻译
  作者：Liu, Xiang; Hu, Michael; Helm, Jonathan E.; Lavieri, Mariel S.; Skolarus, Ted A.
  作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：Hospital readmissions affect hundreds of thousands of patients every year, negatively impacting patients and placing a tremendous burden on the national healthcare system. Post-discharge checkup policies can reduce readmissions through early detection of health conditions, however, the methods behind designing effective checkup policies are poorly understood. Under current practice, up to 67% of readmitted patients return to the hospital before their first scheduled office visit. This work aim...
• The Impacts of Markets and Tax on a Multinational Firm's Procurement Strategy in China AI翻译
  作者：Xu, Jiayan; Hsu, Vernon N.; Niu, Baozhuang
  作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; South China University of Technology
  摘要：Motivated by observations in the greater China region, this paper studies a multinational firm (MNF)'s preferences between two procurement strategies in a global business environment. The MNF relies on a contract manufacturer (CM) to produce its products, which serve both markets within (domestic market) and outside (overseas market) China. The MNF is assumed to be monopolistic in the overseas market but faces competition from a local original equipment manufacturer (OEM) who outsources both m...
• Leveraging Comparables for New Product Sales Forecasting AI翻译
  作者：Baardman, Lennart; Levin, Igor; Perakis, Georgia; Singhvi, Divya
  作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Johnson & Johnson; Johnson & Johnson USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Advance Selling to Strategic Consumers: Preorder Contingent Production Strategy with Advance Selling Target AI翻译
  作者：Wei, Mike Mingcheng; Zhang, Fuqiang
  作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; Washington University (WUSTL)
  摘要：Motivated by emerging industry practices, this paper studies the effectiveness of a new advance selling strategy in counteracting strategic consumer behavior: the preorder contingent production (PCP) strategy, where the seller's production decision is contingent on an advance selling target. We find that compared to other advance selling strategies, such as the traditional advance selling strategy and the capacity rationing strategy, the PCP strategy is effective in mitigating strategic waitin...
• Surface vs. Air Shipment of Humanitarian Goods under Demand Uncertainty AI翻译
  作者：Park, John H.; Kazaz, Burak; Webster, Scott
  作者单位：Pepperdine University; Syracuse University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
  摘要：The combination of insufficient funds and limited information regarding the demand in regions of desperate need presents a great challenge to many humanitarian organizations. This study examines how a humanitarian organization can minimize the expected shortage in delivering relief aid to regions of need, either though surface or air transportation, in the presence of demand uncertainty with a budget constraint. The study makes four contributions. First, we show that when there is reserved sup...
• Location and Emergency Inventory Pre-Positioning for Disaster Response Operations: Min-Max Robust Model and a Case Study of Yushu Earthquake AI翻译
  作者：Ni, Wenjun; Shu, Jia; Song, Miao
  作者单位：Southeast University - China; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  摘要：Pre-positioning emergency inventory in selected facilities is commonly adopted to prepare for potential disaster threat. In this study, we simultaneously optimize the decisions of facility location, emergency inventory pre-positioning, and relief delivery operations within a single-commodity disaster relief network. A min-max robust model is proposed to capture the uncertainties in both the left- and right-hand-side parameters in the constraints. The former corresponds to the proportions of th...