Supply chain operations have entered the digital era with the emergence of blockchain
technology. In this paper, we discuss how the mean–variance (MV) approach can be …

Fast fashion is a business model that offers (the perception of) fashionable clothes at
affordable prices. From an operations standpoint, fast fashion requires a highly responsive …

We construct and examine a screening model of a supply chain where a dominant
manufacturer and a retailer operate under asymmetric information. In this model, the retailer …

Quick response is a supply chain practice that can help improve operations by responding
quickly to market changes. In particular, when retailers are perfectly rational and risk neutral …

Quick response (QR) systems, which aim to respond promptly to market changes by
postponing inventory decisions with a reduced lead time, are critical to support fast fashion …

Franchising, defined as a special operations model in the manufacturer-retailer supply
chain, is playing an increasingly important role in the fashion industry nowadays. However …

Motivated by the recent reshoring initiatives, we study firms' global sourcing strategies from
two different supply sources, offshore and onshore supply bases, under supply and demand …

Fast fashion is an industrial trend that refers to the concept of shortening lead time
(production, distribution) and offering new products to the market as fast as possible. Despite …

This research examines the impact of the strategic customer behavior in two-period pricing
and the inventory decisions in a quick response system. A model with a differentiated value …

Online-offline operations are known to induce channel conflicts if the same products are
offered by them. Under many franchising arrangements in the fashion industry, to avoid …