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作者：Shunko, Masha; Do, Hung T.; Tsay, Andy A.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Vermont; Santa Clara University
摘要：What motivates the geographic footprint of the supply chains that multinational firms (MNFs) deploy? Traditional research in the operations and supply chain management literature tends to recommend locations primarily based on differentials in production costs and the ramifications of physical distance ignoring the role of taxation. MNFs that strategically position parts of their supply chains in low-tax locations can allocate the profits across the divisions to improve post-tax profits. For t...
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作者：Bicer, Isik; Seifert, Ralf W.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
摘要：We consider a manufacturer without any frozen periods in production schedules so that it can dynamically update the schedules as the demand forecast evolves over time until the realization of actual demand. The manufacturer has a fixed production capacity in each production period, which impacts the time to start production as well as the production schedules. We develop a dynamic optimization model to analyze the optimal production schedules under capacity constraint and demand-forecast updat...
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作者：Phadnis, Shardul S.; Fine, Charles H.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This study examines the tradeoffs in sourcing and sales strategies (i.e., upstream and downstream supply chain strategies) by considering them as components of an integral end-to-end supply chain strategy. We evaluate four end-to-end supply chain strategies under various scenarios using a newsvendor model, and compare the model's predictions against the prescriptions in Fisher's () framework, which recommends cost-efficient supply chains for functional products and responsive supply chains for...
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作者：Dong, Ciwei; Ng, Chi To; Cheng, T. C. E.
作者单位：Zhongnan University of Economics & Law; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：In this article, we study the electricity time-of-use (TOU) tariff for an electricity company with stochastic demand. The electricity company offers the flat rate (FR) and TOU tariffs to customers. Under the FR tariff, the customer pays a flat price for electricity consumption in both the peak and non-peak periods. Under the TOU tariff, the customer pays a high price for electricity consumption in the peak period and a low price for electricity consumption in the non-peak period. The electrici...
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作者：Strauss, Arne K.; Talluri, Kalyan
作者单位：University of Warwick; Imperial College London
摘要：Discrete-choice models are widely used to model consumer purchase behavior in assortment optimization and revenue management. In many applications, each customer segment is associated with a consideration set that represents the set of products that customers in this segment consider for purchase. The firm has to make a decision on what assortment to offer at each point in time without the ability to identify the customer's segment. A linear program called the Choice-based Deterministic Linear...
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作者：Kirshner, Samuel Nathan; Levin, Yuri; Nediak, Mikhail
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; Queens University - Canada
摘要：Brand commitment and the risk of product failure play an important role in the timing of upgrades for a durable product in the presence of stochastic technology advancements. Higher brand commitment makes a firm less vulnerable to sales erosion in an incumbent product due to a technology lag. However, the firm is more susceptible to profit loss from the risk of a failed product. We show that under these circumstances, a firm's optimal upgrade strategy is characterized by a threshold policy bas...
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作者：Agrawal, Anupam; Muthulingam, Suresh; Rajapakshe, Tharanga
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：In the automotive industry, many firms source key components from different suppliers, even though the components may function interdependently. In this study, we investigate how component level interdependence impacts quality performance and analyze how various operational factors moderate this relation. We synthesize information from several case studies to model the quality challenges faced by an automotive firm. For several sub-assemblies that go into its products, the firm sourced key com...
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作者：Dong, Lingxiu; Kouvelis, Panos; Tian, Zhongjun
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：Discretionary commonality is a form of operational flexibility used in multi-product manufacturing environments. Consider a case where a firm produces and sells two products. Without discretionary commonality, each product is made through a unique combination of input and production capacity. With discretionary commonality, one of the inputs could be used for producing both products, and one of the production capacities could be used to process different inputs for producing one of the product...
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作者：Jia, Justin; Zhao, Hui
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Drug shortages have been a major challenge facing the US pharmaceutical industry and government in recent years. Although the problem has drawn tremendous attention from the government and media, limited academic research has been devoted to this problem, and few solutions have been proposed based on rigorous research. This study addresses the drug shortage problem from a supply chain perspective, a key aspect missing in the literature, and proposes to mitigate shortages through drug purchase ...
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作者：Berenguer, Gemma; Feng, Qi; Shanthikumar, Jeyaveerasingam George; Xu, Lei
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Subsidy programs are widely offered in both developing and developed countries to encourage consumption of products that generate positive social, health, and environmental externalities. We study the effect of subsidies on product consumption under uncertain market demand. To reach a target consumer population, the program sponsor may subsidize a for-profit or a not-for-profit firm on each unit of the product purchased by the firm or on each unit of the sale generated by the firm. We show tha...
