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作者：Li, Qing; Yu, Peiwen; Wu, Xiaoli
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Fudan University; South China University of Technology
摘要：Retailers of perishable goods are often faced with the choice between more expensive packaging that can extend shelf life of their products and less expensive packaging that cannot. Different choices will lead to different sales, costs, and waste, and different choices require different inventory control policies. In this paper, we study the coordination of inventory and packaging decisions in a retailing environment. Items in an active package have a longer lifetime than those in a regular pa...
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作者：Toyasaki, Fuminori; Arikan, Emel; Silbermayr, Lena; Sigala, Ioanna Falagara
作者单位：York University - Canada; Vienna University of Economics & Business; Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：Cooperation among humanitarian organizations has attracted increasing attention to enhance effectiveness and efficiency of relief supply chains. Our research focuses on horizontal cooperation in inventory management which is currently implemented in the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) network. The present work follows a two-step research approach, which involves collection of empirical data and quantitative modeling to examine and overcome the coordination challenges of the ...
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作者：Eftekhar, Mahyar; Li, Hongmin; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.; Webster, Scott
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Despite high demand and resource limitations, humanitarian organizations (HOs) typically do not share resources and/or coordinate in the field. While coordination enhances operational performance and saves costs, the general perception is that it dilutes the media attention that individual organizations might receive, and negatively influences their future donation income. In this study, we empirically unveil the impact of media exposure and operational performance on the donations obtained by...
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作者：van der Rhee, Bo; Schmidt, Glen M.; Tsai, Weiyu
作者单位：Nyenrode Business University; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：We consider a product sold in multiple variants, each with uncertain demand, produced in a multi-stage process from a standard (i.e., generic) sub-assembly. The fan-out point is defined as the last process stage at which outputs are generic (outputs at every subsequent stage are variant-specific). Insights gained from an analytical study of the system are used to develop heuristics that determine the stage(s) at which safety inventory should be held. We offer a relatively-simple heuristic that...
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作者：Lee, Hau L.; Schmidt, Glen
作者单位：Stanford University; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：Past research (along with our experience) suggests that a firm's supply chain (i.e., value chain) plays an integral role in its ability to not only reduce cost via process innovation, but also in its ability to develop new products and services. Evidence suggests the value chain is playing an ever-more-important role, with greater prevalence of distributed product development (spanning geographic, organizational, or firm boundaries) and open innovation (performed outside the firm). We discuss ...
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作者：Liu, Fang; Song, Jing-Sheng
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University; Duke University
摘要：Motivated by our experience with a global company, we propose and study the concept of a semi-centralized supply chain and analyze its coordination issues. We focus on a supply chain consisting of a home plant and a foreign branch, both of which are under the same parent company but have considerable autonomy. The role of the home plant is to provide a key component to the foreign branch with guaranteed service (required by the headquarters). Because of a high fixed order cost, the branch orde...
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作者：Wang, Zhe (Frank); Mersereau, Adam J.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine
摘要：We consider the inventory management problem of a firm reacting to potential change points in demand, which we define as known epochs at which the demand distribution may (or may not) abruptly change. Motivating examples include global news events (e. g., the 9/11 terrorist attacks), local events (e. g., the opening of a nearby attraction), or internal events (e. g., a product redesign). In the periods following such a potential change point in demand, a manager is torn between using a possibl...
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作者：Li, Meng; Petruzzi, Nicholas C.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Camden; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：This note analyzes the effects associated with reducing demand uncertainty in a decentralized supply chain comprising one manufacturer, one retailer, and a wholesale price contract that governs the transactions between them. The demand uncertainty level is parameterized through a mean-preserving spread, and the manufacturer's and the retailer's equilibrium decisions are solved accordingly. We consider the case of an exogenous retail price as well as the case of an endogenous retail price, and ...
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作者：Lemay, Brian; Cohn, Amy; Epelman, Marina; Gorga, Stephen
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：In scheduling medical residents, the objective is often to maximize resident satisfaction across the space of feasible schedules, relative to the many hard constraints that ensure appropriate patient coverage, adequate training opportunities, etc. A common metric of resident satisfaction is the number of time-off requests that are granted. Simply maximizing this total, however, may lead to undesirable schedules since some requests have higher priority than others. For example, it might be bett...
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作者：Sonntag, Danja; Kiesmueller, Gudrun P.
作者单位：Otto von Guericke University
摘要：Due to yields of less than 50% during the production of curved glass for the displays on their new cell phone series, Samsung has to deal with higher than expected production costs of several million dollars. Where there is random yield, production costs as well as holding costs can be reduced by introducing quality inspections, in which defective items are discarded before further production. To achieve the greatest cost savings, it is important to determine the optimal number and positions o...
