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作者：Yue, Jinfeng; Xia, Yu; Tran, Thuhang; Chen, Bintong
作者单位：Middle Tennessee State University; Washington State University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China
摘要：Make-to-order (MTO) manufacturers face a common problem of maintaining a desired service level for delivery at a reasonable cost while dealing with irregular customer orders. This research considers a MTO manufacturer who produces a product consisting of several custom parts to be ordered from multiple suppliers. We develop procedures to allocate orders to each supplier for each custom part and calculate the associated replenishment cost as well as the probability of meeting the delivery date,...
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作者：Bichescu, Bogdan C.; Fry, Michael J.; Polak, George G.
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University System of Ohio; Wright State University Dayton
摘要：We model a situation where a firm wishes to balance workload requirements by creating a portfolio of recurrent insourcing and outsourcing contracts. We use harmonic analysis to decompose an input workload profile into a portfolio of insourcing and outsourcing contracts using rectangular-wave basis functions to better achieve some desired constant workload level. However, this initial selection of contracts may result in impractical options. Therefore, we also develop mathematical programs usin...
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作者：Klassen, Kenneth J.; Yoogalingam, Reena
作者单位：Brock University
摘要：Outpatient health care service providers face increasing pressure to improve the quality of their service through effective scheduling of appointments. In this paper, a simulation optimization approach is used to determine optimal rules for a stochastic appointment scheduling problem. This approach allows for the consideration of more variables and factors in modeling this system than in prior studies, providing more flexibility in setting policy under various problem settings and environmenta...
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作者：Amaral, Jason; Tsay, Andy A.
作者单位：Santa Clara University
摘要：The Outsourcing Game is a role-play simulation that has been deployed in industry and academic training courses worldwide. It incorporates the concepts of hidden actions, hidden information, and misaligned incentives, and conveys messages about power, trust, and reputation. The game depicts the adventures of Acme, the brand owner of a product manufactured by an outsourced supply chain. Through a series of negotiations, Acme attempts to influence its partners (two suppliers and two service prov...
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作者：Bala, Ram; Carr, Scott
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：The computer software industry is an extreme example of rapid new product introduction. However, many consumers are sophisticated enough to anticipate the availability of upgrades in the future. This creates the possibility that consumers might either postpone purchase or buy early on and never upgrade. In response, many software producers offer special upgrade pricing to old customers in order to mitigate the effects of strategic consumer behavior. We analyze the optimality of upgrade pricing...
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作者：Ballestin, Francisco; Leus, Roel
作者单位：Universidad Publica de Navarra; KU Leuven
摘要：We investigate resource-constrained project scheduling with stochastic activity durations. Various objective functions related to timely project completion are examined, as well as the correlation between these objectives. We develop a GRASP-heuristic to produce high-quality solutions, using so-called descriptive sampling. The algorithm outperforms existing algorithms for expected-makespan minimization. The distribution of the possible makespan realizations for a given scheduling policy is als...
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作者：Cho, Soo-Haeng; McCardle, Kevin F.; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：For many product categories, manufacturers and retailers often offer rebates to stimulate sales. Due to certain adverse effects, however, some manufacturers and retailers are contemplating the elimination of their rebate programs. This paper sheds light on the debate about the value of rebate programs by presenting a model for evaluating the conditions under which a firm should offer rebates in a competitive environment. Specifically, we consider a two-level supply chain comprising one manufac...
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作者：Tilson, Vera; Wang, Yunzeng; Yang, Wei
作者单位：University of Rochester; University of California System; University of California Riverside; Long Island University; Long Island University Post
摘要：In durable goods markets, such as those for automobiles or computers, the coexistence of selling and leasing is common as is the existence of both corporate and individual consumers. Leases to corporate consumers affect the price of used goods on the second-hand market which in turn affect the buying and leasing behavior of individual consumers. The setting of prices (or volumes) for sale and lease to individual and corporate consumers is a complicated problem for manufacturers. We consider a ...
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作者：Wang, Haifeng; Yan, Houmin
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：It is common for suppliers operating in batch-production mode to deal with patient and impatient customers. This paper considers inventory models in which a supplier provides alternative lead times to its customers: a short or a long lead time. Orders from patient customers can be taken by the supplier and included in the next production cycle, while orders from impatient customers have to be satisfied from the on-hand inventory. We denote the action to commit one unit of on-hand inventory to ...
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作者：Ho, Teck H.; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：In this special issue, the contributing authors address several emerging marketing and operations interface problems and develop innovative approaches for solving them. Specifically, by explicitly modeling active consumer behavior under different pricing schemes, the papers in this special issue examine how firms can coordinate their marketing and operations to improve their competitiveness and profit. The papers also provide insights on how to develop and operate new and innovative market mec...
