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作者：Subramanian, Ravi; Ferguson, Mark E.; Toktay, L. Beril
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Firms often determine whether or not to make components common across products by focusing on the manufacturing and sales of new products only. However, component commonality decisions that ignore remanufacturing can adversely affect the profitability of the firm. In this article we analyze how remanufacturing could reverse the OEM's commonality decision that is based on the manufacturing and sales of new products only. Specifically, we determine the conditions under which the OEM's optimal de...
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作者：Cayirli, Tugba; Yang, Kum Khiong; Quek, Ser Aik
作者单位：Ozyegin University; Singapore Management University; National University of Singapore
摘要：This study introduces a universal Dome appointment rule that can be parameterized through a planning constant for different clinics characterized by the environmental factorsno-shows, walk-ins, number of appointments per session, variability of service times, and cost of doctor's time to patients time. Simulation and nonlinear regression are used to derive an equation to predict the planning constant as a function of the environmental factors. We also introduce an adjustment procedure for appo...
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作者：Zhao, Xuying; Stecke, Kathryn E.; Prasad, Ashutosh
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Firms in service and make-to-order manufacturing industries often quote lead times and prices to customers. We define uniform quotation mode (UQM) as the strategy where a firm offers a single lead time and price quotation, and differentiated quotation mode (DQM) is where a firm offers a menu of lead times and prices for customers to choose from. Both modes are followed in practice. Firms should determine which is more profitable. We classify customers into two groups: lead time sensitive (LS) ...
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作者：Cheng, T. C. E.; Choi, Tsan-Ming; Zhao, Xiande
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
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作者：Eynan, Amit; Dong, Lingxiu
作者单位：University of Richmond; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Faced with demand uncertainty across multiple product lines, many companies have recourse to flexible capacities which can process different products in order to better balance the trade-off between capacity utilization and cost efficiency. Many studies demonstrated the potential benefit of using flexible capacity at the aggregate level by treating a whole plant or a whole process as a single stage. This paper extends these analyses by studying the benefits of flexible capacity while consideri...
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作者：Staats, Bradley R.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Examination of team productivity finds that team familiarity, i.e., individuals' prior shared work experience, can positively impact the efficiency and quality of team output. Despite the attention given to team familiarity and its contingencies, prior work has focused on whether team members have worked together, not on which team members have worked together, and under what conditions. In this paper, I parse overall team familiarity to consider effects of geographic location and the hierarch...
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作者：Zhang, Wei; Hua, Zhongsheng; Benjaafar, Saif
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We consider a dual-sourcing inventory system, where procuring from one supplier involves a high variable cost but negligible fixed cost whereas procuring from the other supplier involves a low variable cost but high fixed cost, as well as an order size constraint. We show that the problem can be reduced to an equivalent single-sourcing problem. However, the corresponding ordering cost is neither concave nor convex. Using the notion of quasi-convexity, we partially characterize the structure of...
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作者：Cui, Zhijian; Loch, Christoph; Grossmann, Bernd; He, Ru
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Siemens AG; Siemens Germany
摘要：It is becoming increasingly common to involve external technology providers in developing new technologies and new products. Two important phases involved in working with technology vendors are vendor selection and vendor management. Because for both steps theory development of key decision guidelines is still immature, we use detailed case studies of 31 innovation outsourcing projects at Siemens to develop grounded theory on provider selection criteria and on project management success driver...
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作者：Elomri, Adel; Ghaffari, Asma; Jemai, Zied; Dallery, Yves
作者单位：Universite Paris Saclay
摘要：This paper focuses on the issues of coalition formation and cost allocation in a joint replenishment system involving a set of independent and freely interacting retailers purchasing an item from one supplier to meet a deterministic demand. The papers dealing with this problem are mainly focused on supperadditive games, where the cost savings associated with a coalition increase with the number of players in the coalition. The most relevant question addressed then is how to allocate the saving...
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作者：Cooper, William L.; Li, Le
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Microsoft
摘要：We consider settings in which a revenue manager controls bookings over a sequence of flights. The revenue manager uses a buy-up model to select booking limits and updates estimates of the model parameters as data are accumulated. The buy-up model we consider is based upon a simple model of customer choice, wherein each low-fare customer who is not able to purchase a low-fare ticket will, with a fixed probability, buy up to the high fare, independent of everything else. We analyze the evolution...
