Sciweavers

5 search results - page 1 / 1
» Improving Supply Chain Performance and Managing Risk Under W...
Sort
View
MANSCI
2010
106views more  MANSCI 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Improving Supply Chain Performance and Managing Risk Under Weather-Related Demand Uncertainty
This paper considers a manufacturer-retailer supply chain for a seasonal product whose demand is weather-sensitive. The retailer orders from the manufacturer (supplier) prior to t...
Frank Youhua Chen, Candace Arai Yano
IOR
2008
128views more  IOR 2008»
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
AUTOMATICA
2006
152views more  AUTOMATICA 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Simulation-based optimization of process control policies for inventory management in supply chains
A simulation-based optimization framework involving simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) is presented as a means for optimally specifying parameters of intern...
Jay D. Schwartz, Wenlin Wang, Daniel E. Rivera
MANSCI
2006
119views more  MANSCI 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Supply Chain Choice on the Internet
Internet companies extensively use the practice of drop-shipping, where the wholesaler stocks and owns the inventory and ships products directly to customers at retailers' re...
Serguei Netessine, Nils Rudi
STOC
2004
ACM
107views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
Primal-dual algorithms for deterministic inventory problems
We consider several classical models in deterministic inventory theory: the single-item lot-sizing problem, the joint replenishment problem, and the multi-stage assembly problem. ...
Retsef Levi, Robin Roundy, David B. Shmoys