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作者：Feng, Yan; Martel, Alain; D'Amours, Sophie; Beauregard, Robert
作者单位：Dalhousie University; Laval University; Laval University; Laval University
摘要：One of the important objectives of supply chain S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) is the profitable alignment of customer demand with supply chain capabilities through the coordinated planning of sales, production, distribution, and procurement. In the make-to-order manufacturing context considered in this paper, sales plans cover both contract and spot sales, and procurement plans require the selection of supplier contracts. S&OP decisions also involve the allocation of capacity to support...
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作者：Krishnan, Viswanathan
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：The field of Production and Operations Management (POM) is increasingly perceived as a rigorous but narrow field, antiquated and not very relevant to the current challenges and concerns of managers in job-creating growth companies vital to our economies. I argue that a narrower positioning of POM in the past is responsible for its perceived limited utility to growth firms and global economies. POM at its core is about doing more with less, which is very well aligned with the context and needs ...
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作者：Han, Chaodong; Dong, Yan; Dresner, Martin
作者单位：University System of Maryland; Towson University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Realizing potential benefits from emerging market penetration requires firms to address inherent supply chain challenges. A major challenge is for firms to manage costly inventories to address demand and supply risks in emerging markets. However, emerging market penetration may offer opportunities for firms to lower inventory levels, reduce costs, and improve operating performance. Using data for 482 manufacturing firms over the 5-year period, 20032007, obtained from the COMPUSTAT Industrial a...
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作者：Shao, Jing; Krishnan, Harish; McCormick, S. Thomas
作者单位：University of International Business & Economics; University of British Columbia
摘要：Although there is a rich literature on single product distribution in decentralized supply chains, the incentive problems that arise in. distributing a product line have largely not been investigated. In practice, most manufacturers distribute a line of products with different features and qualities and not just a single product. Consider a manufacturer who distributes a product line through competing downstream retailers. In this setting, we investigate how and why the retailers' price and in...
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作者：Gilland, Wendell G.; Heese, H. Sebastian
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Customers who face a stockout situation often decide to purchase a different product in the same category. We analyze the resulting dynamic substitution problem in a retail environment, where customers serve themselves from the store shelves, such that the sequence of customer arrivals affects how scarce products are allocated to customers. We consider a setting with constrained shelf space, and we study how a retailer should optimally allocate such space between substitute products. We charac...
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作者：Kraft, Tim; Erhun, Feryal; Carlson, Robert C.; Rafinejad, Dariush
作者单位：University of Virginia; Stanford University
摘要：As public awareness of environmental hazards increases, a growing concern for corporations is the potential negative environmental impact of their products and the chemicals these products contain. In this study, we analyze the optimal decisions of a firm when a substance within its product is identified as potentially hazardous. Although the substance is not currently regulated, regulation may occur in the future. Therefore, the firm must devise a strategy for the development and implementati...
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作者：Jiang, Li
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：I consider a setting of two firms and one capacity agent. Each firm serves a primary market, and the capacity agent sustains a common market to draw demand for capacity from the external firms. The firms can partner with the capacity agent under her contract to serve the common market. When they use the common market mainly as an outlet for their unused capacities, the capacity agent will only specify a variable fee for each capacity unit deployed through her, and prefer to partner with one fi...
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作者：Tripathy, Anshuman; Eppinger, Steven D.
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This study describes (through an application) a novel approach toward organizing work distribution across globally distributed design and development centers of a product development (PD) organization. While there exist several studies (and modeling applications) for work distribution and allocation for manufacturing and supply chain networks, those related to product development organizations are limited to qualitative suggestions such as offshoring of modular tasks. However, most PD efforts ...
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作者：Klabjan, Diego; Simchi-Levi, David; Song, Miao
作者单位：Northwestern University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Hong Kong
摘要：Traditional approaches in inventory control first estimate the demand distribution among a predefined family of distributions based on data fitting of historical demand observations, and then optimize the inventory control using the estimated distributions. These approaches often lead to fragile solutions whenever the preselected family of distributions was inadequate. In this article, we propose a minimax robust model that integrates data fitting and inventory optimization for the single-item...
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作者：Huh, Woonghee Tim; Lall, Upmanu
作者单位：University of British Columbia; Columbia University; Columbia University
摘要：The changing climate and concerns over food security are prompting a new look at the supply chain reliability of products derived from agriculture, and the potential role of contract farming as a mechanism to address climate and price risk while contributing toward crop diversification and water use efficiency is also emerging. In this study, the decision problem of a farmer associated with allocating his land among different crops with varying water requirements is considered, given that a su...
