Encouraging interest in inventory management necessitates that instructors overcome concerns that the subject is too abstract or conceptual. To aid in this process, we describe a competition engaging students in concepts, including demand estimation, demand uncertainty, and costs of inventory...

The web is having a significant impact on how firms interact with each other and their customers. Past stumbling blocks for supply chain integration such as high transaction costs between partners, poor information availability, and the challenges of managing complex interfaces between...

This is the fourth of a series of papers that are being written as part of a larger project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit to which economists have access for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In...