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IOR
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Promised Lead-Time Contracts Under Asymmetric Information
We study the important problem of how a supplier should optimally share the consequences of demand uncertainty (i.e., the cost of inventory excesses and shortages) with a retailer...
Holly Lutze, Özalp Özer
MANSCI
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang
MANSCI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Implications of Renegotiation for Optimal Contract Flexibility and Investment
After entering into supply contracts, firms often later renegotiate the terms of those contracts. For example, firms that obtain market demand information after signing supply c...
Erica L. Plambeck, Terry A. Taylor
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Collaboration software to reduce inventory and increase response
Some recent trends in business and manufacturing hold the promise of greater profits, yet, due to profit-robbing inventory increases, this promise has not been fully realized. [9]...
Indu Bingham, Barbara Hoefle, Kim Phan, Jim Sizemo...
ACMICEC
2005
ACM
157views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2005»
13 years 7 months ago
The development and evaluation of exception handling mechanisms for order fulfillment process based on BPEL4WS
The advance of Internet technology fosters the order fulfillment process in a supply chain across heterogeneous information systems. In order to monitor states between partners in...
Fu-ren Lin, Hsiang-chin Chang