No: 011-0319 Abstract Title: Impact of Inventory Allocation Policies on Downstream Supply Variability in a Multi-echelon System Authors Information: SUMAN NIRANJAN School of Management, State University of New York Binghamton, Vestal, NY 13902 607-777-4120 [email protected] FRANK CIARALLO Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435 937-...

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The bullwhip effect is defined as the distortion of demand information as one moves upstream in the supply chain, causing severe inefficiencies in the whole supply chain. Although extensive research has been conducted to study the causes of the bullwhip effect and seek mitigation solutions with respect to several demand processes, less attention has been devoted to the ...

One of the most important things in pursuit of supply chain management is to prevent sub-optimization caused by decentralized decision making over the various entities. As a solution of the issue, supply chain coordination approach has frequently been used. However, a coordinated supply chain might fail to provide additional profit to one of the players. A supply chain contract can be to achiev...

In most Supply chain management researches, lead time is considered as a predetermined and fixed parameter. In recent years, some researchers are motivated to consider controllable lead time as a decision variable but they have only considered single product and two-echelon supply chains. This paper proposes a cost allocation model considering the elements of a three echelon supply chain consis...

This paper examines the extended two-echelon newsboy problem for a manufacturer and retailer in a supply chain with asymmetric market information. In this scenario, the retailer has better knowledge of the market s demand, and the manufacturer perceives the same demand. This applied model presents how the manufacturer can take advantage of the retailer s market information and improve the effic...