Production and Operations Management

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• Model-informed health system reorganization during emergencies AI翻译
  作者：Goncalves, Paulo; Ferrari, Paolo; Crivelli, Luca; Albanese, Emiliano
  作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana
  摘要：The COVID-19 pandemic presented the world to a novel class of problems highlighting distinctive features that rendered standard academic research and participatory processes less effective in properly informing public health interventions in a timely way. The urgency and rapidity of the emergency required tight integration of novel and high-quality simulation modeling with public health policy implementation. By introducing flexibility and agility into standard participatory processes, we alig...
• Cooperative security against interdependent risks AI翻译
  作者：Gopalakrishnan, Sanjith; Sankaranarayanan, Sriram
  作者单位：McGill University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; McGill University
  摘要：Firms in interorganizational networks are exposed to interdependent risks that are transferable across partner firms, such as contamination in food supply chains or data breaches in technology networks. They can be decomposed into intrinsic risks a firm faces from its own operations and extrinsic risks transferred from its partners. Firms have access to two security strategies: either they can independently eliminate both intrinsic and extrinsic risks by securing their links with partners or, ...
• Managing pandemics: A POM perspective and directions for future research AI翻译
  作者：Anderson, Edward; Gupta, Sushil; Joglekar, Nitin; Starr, Martin
  作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; State University System of Florida; Florida International University; Boston University; Rollins College; Columbia University; Boston University
  摘要：COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how unprepared operations and supply chain professionals are for abnormal conditions. Understanding how the production and operations management field can affect the trajectory and especially the remediation of pandemics is a critical, but understudied, area of research from descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive perspectives. Fourteen research articles in this special issue have attempted to fill this gap with rigor. We first summarize these articles in six c...
• Determining maximum shipping age requirements for shelf life and food waste management AI翻译
  作者：Akkas, Arzum; Honhon, Dorothee
  作者单位：Boston University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
  摘要：Products approaching the end of their shelf life on retail store shelves are more likely to result in food waste. For this reason, manufacturers establish shipping policies related to the age of the products that leave their warehouses, that is, they set a maximum age beyond which shipping to retail stores is no longer allowed. In practice, most existing policies are simple one-size-fits-all rules that do not accommodate the varying characteristics of the products. We offer a framework that ma...
• Dynamic incentives for sustainable contract farming AI翻译
  作者：Zhang, Wei; Gao, Long; Zolghadr, Mohammad; Jian, Dawei; El Hafsi, Mohsen
  作者单位：Zhejiang University; University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; University of California System; University of California Riverside
  摘要：The rise of contract farming has transformed millions of farmers' lives. We study a new class of contract farming problems, where the farmer holds superior information and can invest effort to improve productivity over time. Despite their prevalence, the literature offers little guidance on how to manage such farmers with dynamic incentives. We build a game-theoretic model that captures the dynamic incentives of learning and gaming, with hidden action and information. We characterize the optim...
• Co-op advertising in randomly fluctuating markets AI翻译
  作者：Han, Jinhui; Sethi, Suresh P.; Siu, Chi Chung; Yam, Sheung Chi Phillip
  作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
  摘要：We consider a dynamic Stackelberg game between a manufacturer and a retailer facing a randomly changing market environment (boom-bust cycle) modeled as a Markov process over time. The manufacturer announces the national advertising effort and a cooperative (co-op) advertising subsidy, and the retailer sets the local advertising effort. We derive the optimal feedback equilibrium advertising strategies and show that the channel members are forward-looking in their advertising decisions. In the s...
• Managing presales with two payments and return policy when consumers are time-inconsistent AI翻译
  作者：Kuang, Yunjuan; Jiang, Li
  作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  摘要：We consider a firm using presales with two payments-including an upfront deposit and a postponed arrear-to sell a product to time-inconsistent consumers under various return policies. With the passage of time, consumers decide whether to preorder the product by paying the deposit, whether to settle the balance by paying the arrear by the due date, and, when returns are allowed, whether to return a fully paid product for a refund after its fitness is revealed. Canceling a preorder before settli...
• Customer segmentation and ex ante fairness: A queueing perspective AI翻译
  作者：Liu, Jian; Zhou, Yong-Pin; Chen, Jian
  作者单位：Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Tsinghua University
  摘要：In this study, we analyze how customer perceptions of ex ante unfairness affect a service provider that offers a priority service option. Customers differ in their waiting time costs, but that information is private to each customer. To address this issue and maximize revenue, the service provider offers a regular queue and a priority queue with an additional fee, thereby inducing the self-selection of customers into those two queues. The customers make their service-joining decision, based on...
• Unpacking the cognitive processes of the boundedly rational newsvendor AI翻译
  作者：Niranjan, Tarikere T.; Ghosalya, Narendra K.; Menon, Raveen R.; Rotaru, Kristian; Gavirneni, Srinagesh
  作者单位：Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay; Monash University; Monash University; Monash University; Cornell University
  摘要：We report on the findings of five controlled experiments that test the effectiveness of proposed interventions aiming to improve both the process and outcomes of decision making when performing the newsvendor task. We use eye-tracking technology aided by interviews to gain new insights into people's cognitive processes. Our results confirm that human newsvendors exhibit the tendency of mean-reverting demand prediction using past demand even when the demand is independent and identically distri...
• Equitable distribution of perishable items in a food bank supply chain AI翻译
  作者：Orgut, Irem Sengul; Lodree, Emmett J.
  作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
  摘要：In the United States, food banks play an important role in helping to reduce the rate of food insecurity by distributing donated food among the population in need. One of the challenges that food banks face is to equitably distribute food donations among their clients such that, ideally, each recipient receives the same amount of food. They aim to do so while minimizing waste that occurs due to spoilage and capacity limitations. Perishable food items present specific challenges since they are ...