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作者：Tan, Yinliang (Ricky); Carrillo, Janice E.
作者单位：Tulane University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：The introduction of digital goods in the media industry has gained a considerable amount of positive press due to superior features such as increased accessibility and portability. However, the distribution of these digital goods in conjunction with their physical analogs (i.e., printed books) has been operationally problematic for media supply chains. Specifically, the types of contracts utilized to distribute these goods such as agency models have come under fire in the press. A high profile...
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作者：Yan, Xiaoming; Chao, Xiuli; Lu, Ye; Zhou, Sean X.
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; City University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：Because of environmental and economic reasons, an increasing number of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) nowadays sell both new and remanufactured products. When both products are available, customers will buy the one that gives them a higher (and non-negative) utility. Thus, if the firm does not price the products properly, then product cannibalization may arise and its revenue may be adversely impacted. In this paper, we study the pricing problem of a firm that sells both new and reman...
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作者：Rahmani, Morvarid; Roels, Guillaume; Karmarkar, Uday S.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Many knowledge-intensive projects such as new product and software design, research, and high technology development have flexible scope and involve co-production between a client and a vendor. In such projects, it is often challenging to estimate how much progress can be achieved within a certain time window or how much time may be needed to achieve a certain degree of progress, especially because the client and vendor often adjust their efforts as a function of the project's progress, the ti...
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作者：Janakiraman, Ganesh; Seshadri, Sridhar
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：We study dual sourcing inventory systems with backordering and with stationary, stochastic demands. The two supply sources differ in their unit prices and lead times. We focus on the option of making costless returns to the cheaper, longer leadtime supplier. We show that the value of this option is zero. Our analysis leading to this result includes the derivation of several structural properties of the optimal policies for dual sourcing systems with and without the return option.
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作者：Ranjan, Chitta; Paynabar, Kamran; Helm, Jonathan E.; Pan, Julian
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：The ability to accurately forecast and control inpatient census, and thereby workloads, is a critical and long-standing problem in hospital management. The majority of current literature focuses on optimal scheduling of inpatients, but largely ignores the process of accurate estimation of the trajectory of patients throughout the treatment and recovery process. The result is that current scheduling models are optimizing based on inaccurate input data. We developed a Clustering and Scheduling I...
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作者：Sen, Alper; Talebian, Masoud
作者单位：Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University; Sharif University of Technology
摘要：For many retailers, markdown decisions are taken by retail buyers whose compensation is based on sales revenue so their objective is to maximize it through the season. This implies that the buyers' objectives are not perfectly aligned with the overall profitability the firm. Many retailers set markdown budgets prior to the season to control margin erosion and increase profitability. Markdown budget constrains the buyers on the amount of discounts that they can apply on a given inventory of mer...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Toktay, Beril; Yeo, Wee Meng; Zhang, Can
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Agency for Science Technology & Research (A*STAR); A*STAR - Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech); University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：We analyze not-for-profit Medical Surplus Recovery Organizations (MSROs) that manage the recovery of surplus (unused or donated) medical products to fulfill the needs of underserved healthcare facilities in the developing world. Our work is inspired by an award-winning North American non-governmental organization (NGO) that matches the uncertain supply of medical surplus with the receiving parties' needs. In particular, this NGO adopts a recipient-driven resource allocation model, which grants...
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作者：Xu, Su Xiu; Huang, George Q.
作者单位：Jinan University; Jinan University; University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study is the first proposing allocatively efficient multi-attribute auctions for the procurement of multiple items. In the B2B e-commerce logistics problem (ELP), the e-commerce platform is the shipper generating a large number of online orders between product sellers and buyers, and third-party logistics (3PL) providers are carriers that can deliver these online orders. This study focuses on the ELP with multiple attributes (ELP-MA), which is generally the problem of matching the shipper...
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作者：Steinker, Sebastian; Hoberg, Kai; Thonemann, Ulrich W.
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; University of Cologne
摘要：To be efficient, logistics operations in e-commerce require warehousing and transportation resources to be aligned with sales. Customer orders must be fulfilled with short lead times to ensure high customer satisfaction, and the costly under-utilization of workers must be avoided. To approach this ideal, forecasting order quantities with high accuracy is essential. Many drivers of online sales, including seasonality, special promotions and public holidays, are well known, and they have been fr...
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作者：Kraft, Tim; Raz, Gal
作者单位：University of Virginia; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：The recent proliferation of media reports on substances of concern has increased consumer fears, sparked scientific debate, and highlighted the need for stronger chemical regulations. When a substance of concern is identified (e.g., bisphenol-A (BPA) in reusable water bottles), manufacturers face difficult trade-offs in deciding whether to proactively replace the substance in their products or to defer replacement and wait to see if regulation occurs. In this study, we examine when opportuniti...
