Journal: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Found 445 papers in total
An Approach to Securely Identifying Beneficial Collaboration in Decentralized Logistics Systems
2008,
The problem of sharing manufacturing, inventory, or capacity to improve performance is...
Designing Optimal Preannounced Markdowns in the Presence of Rational Customers with Multiunit Demands
2008,
We analyze the optimal design of a markdown pricing mechanism with preannounced...
Design Architecture and Introduction Timing for Rapidly Improving Industrial Products
2008,
Technological advances present firms in many industries with opportunities to...
Improving Performance in Cyclic Production Systems by Using Forced Variable Idle Setup Time
2008,
In the early 1990s, research began to show that the Japanese production theory, which...
Load-Based POLCA: An Integrated Material Control System for Multiproduct, Multimachine Job Shops
2008,
This article proposes a supporting framework for the implementation of the material...
Replenishment Sequencing in a Supply Chain with Balanced Ordering
2008,
This paper studies a supply chain with one supplier and multiple heterogeneous...
Mass Customization vs. Mass Production: Variety and Price Competition
2008,
We study competition between two multiproduct firms with distinct production...
Integrating the Promotional and Service Roles of Retail Inventories
2008,
In some retail contexts, higher inventories not only improve service levels, but also...
Dynamic Inventory Management with Learning About the Demand Distribution and Substitution Probability
2008,
A well–known result in the Bayesian inventory management literature is: If lost...
Retail Inventory Management When Records Are Inaccurate
2008,
Inventory record inaccuracy is a significant problem for retailers using automated...
Strategic Inventory Placement in Supply Chains: Nonstationary Demand
2008,
The life cycle of new products is becoming shorter and shorter in all markets. For...
On the Choice-Based Linear Programming Model for Network Revenue Management
2008,
Gallego et al. (2004) recently proposed a choice–based deterministic linear...
Cooperation Between Multiple Newsvendors with Warehouses
2008,
This study considers a supply chain that consists of n retailers, each facing a...
Further Improvements on Base-Stock Approximations for Independent Stochastic Lead Times with Order Crossover
2008,
When inventory replenishments can arrive in a different sequence than the one in which...
Optimal Pricing of Seasonal Products in the Presence of Forward-Looking Consumers
2008,
We study the optimal pricing of a finite quantity of a fashion–like seasonal...
Pricing Promotional Products Under Upselling
2008,
Upselling is offering an additional product to a customer who just made a purchase....
Competitive Customization
2008,
We consider a duopoly market with heterogeneous customer tastes. The firms play a...
Interday Forecasting and Intraday Updating of Call Center Arrivals
2008,
Accurate forecasting of call arrivals is critical for staffing and scheduling of a...
Simple Methods for Shift Scheduling in Multiskill Call Centers
2008,
This paper introduces a new method for shift scheduling in multiskill call centers....
A Simple Staffing Method for Multiskill Call Centers
2008,
We study a simple method for staffing in multiskill call centers. The method has short...
Usage Restriction and Subscription Services: Operational Benefits with Rational Users
2008,
This paper studies a rental firm that offers reusable products to price– and...
Computing Virtual Nesting Controls for Network Revenue Management Under Customer Choice Behavior
2008,
We consider a revenue management, network capacity control problem in a setting where...
An Analysis of the Control-Algorithm Re-solving Issue in Inventory and Revenue Management
2008,
While inventory– and revenue–management problems can be represented as...
Facility Location with Stochastic Demand and Constraints on Waiting Time
2008,
We analyze the problem of optimal location of a set of facilities in the presence of...
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