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作者：Bansal, Saurabh; Transchel, Sandra
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Kuhne Logistics University
摘要：The manufacturing complexity of many high-tech products results in a substantial variation in the quality of the units produced. After manufacturing, the units are classified into vertically differentiated products. These products are typically obtained in uncontrollable fractions, leading to mismatches between their demand and supply. We focus on product stockouts due to the supply-demand mismatches. Existing literature suggests that when faced with product stockouts, firms should satisfy all...
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作者：Chao, Raul O.; Lichtendahl, Kenneth C., Jr.; Grushka-Cockayne, Yael
作者单位：University of Virginia
摘要：Many large organizations use a stage-gate process to manage new product development projects. In a typical stage-gate process project managers learn about potential ideas from research and exert effort in development while senior executives make intervening go/no-go decisions. This decentralized decision making results in an agency problem because the idea quality in early stages is unknown to the executive and the project manager must exert unobservable development effort in later stages. In ...
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作者：Hutchison-Krupat, Jeremy; Chao, Raul O.
作者单位：University of Virginia
摘要：Most organizations employ collaborative teams to manage innovation projects. Although the use of collaborative innovation teams is a good starting point, an organization's ability to innovate can be enhanced by managing risk-taking behavior through monetary incentive schemes and through an organizational culture that tolerates failure. This article reports the results of two controlled experiments aimed at understanding how tolerance for failure and incentives impact the decisions of individua...
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作者：Lim, Yun Fong; Wu, Yue
作者单位：Singapore Management University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：It is challenging to maximize and maintain productivity of a U-line with discrete stations under the impact of variability. This is because maximizing productivity requires assigning workers to suitable tasks and maintaining productivity requires sufficient flexibility in task assignment to absorb the impact of variability. To achieve this goal, we propose an operating protocol to coordinate workers on the U-line. Under the protocol the system can be configured such that its productivity is ma...
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作者：Tang, Sammi Y.; Gurnani, Haresh; Gupta, Diwakar
作者单位：University of Miami; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Supply disruptions are all too common in supply chains. To mitigate delivery risk, buyers may either source from multiple suppliers or offer incentives to their preferred supplier to improve its process reliability. These incentives can be either direct (investment subsidy) or indirect (inflated order quantity). In this study, we present a series of models to highlight buyers' and suppliers' optimal parameter choices. Our base-case model has deterministic buyer demand and two possibilities for...
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作者：Easton, Fred F.
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：Although cross-trained workers offer numerous operational advantages for extended-hour service businesses, they must first be scheduled for duty. The outcome from those decisions, usually made a week or more in advance, varies with realized service demand, worker attendance, and the way available cross-trained workers are deployed once the demands for service are known. By ignoring the joint variability of attendance and demand, we show that existing workforce scheduling models tend to oversta...
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作者：Sainathan, Arvind
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University
摘要：I consider pricing and ordering decisions faced by a retailer selling a perishable product with a two-period shelf life over an infinite horizon. In the first period, the product is new; in the next, it becomes old. The new product is perceived by customers to have a higher quality than the old product. Every period, the retailer makes three decisions: prices for the new and old products and how much new product to order. I first show, with some simple cases, that demand uncertainty can make t...
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作者：Wei, Mike Mingcheng; Yao, Tao; Jiang, Bin; Young, Scott T.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; DePaul University
摘要：Supplier default is common in emerging markets. Suppliers under the threat of default have different objectives from profit-seeking companies. This paper analytically tests how profit-seeking or survival-seeking behavior, single-period or two-period consideration, and buyer's subsidy influence the supplier's and buyer's final utilities. The results show that under single-period consideration, the supplier's survival-seeking strategy in fact drives more start-ups or small suppliers out of busin...
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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：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...
