Advances in information technology, particularly in the e‐business arena, are enabling firms
to rethink their supply chain strategies and explore new avenues for inter‐organizational …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the information pertaining to the downstream
part of the supply chain and then reviews the upstream information. The chapter discusses …

Authored by a team of experts, the new edition of this bestseller presents practical
techniques for managing inventory and production throughout supply chains. It covers the …

We incorporate information flow between a supplier and a retailer in a two-echelon model
that captures the capacitated setting of a typical supply chain. We consider three …

We address the procurement of new components for recyclable products in the context of
Kodak's single-use camera. The objective is to find an ordering policy that minimizes the …

Recent years have seen a growing interest among both academics and practitioners in the
field of supply chain management. With that has come a growing body of work on supply …

We consider the problem of designing a contract to maximize the supplier's profit in a one‐
supplier–one‐buyer relationship for a short‐life‐cycle product. Demand for the finished …

Companies such as Zara and World Co. have recently implemented novel product
development processes and supply chain architectures enabling them to make more …

Consider the newsvendor model, but under the assumption that the underlying demand
distribution is not known as part of the input. Instead, the only information available is a …

In this paper, we study the impact of consumer-generated quality information (eg, consumer
reviews) on a firm's dynamic pricing strategy in the presence of strategic consumers. Such …