Purpose: The main purpose of this article is to systematically review the papers published in the period 2005-2020 about the integration of production, inventory and distribution activities in perishable supply chains. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed research methodology is based on...

Nowadays, companies are collaborating and forming supply chain partnerships under a certain scheme, such as a vendor-managed inventory scheme. The collaboration increases the supply chain’s visibility, which leads to cost efficiency. It may also contribute to enhancing the supply chain’s...

Background: Determining the optimum shipment quantity in a traditional production system is a competitive business dimension, and developing a reliable shipment policy is decisive for long-term objectives. Currently, significant research in this domain has mainly focused on the optimum shipment...

In this paper we aim to improve the decisions taken in a Centralized Multiproduct Newsvendor problem by making use of information provided by exogenous features while allowing for substitutions between products in case of scarcity. In particular, we build decision rules that minimize the...

``Buy-One-Get-One" (BOGO) promotions have become popular. With BOGO, the first unit is sold for the regular price, and the second unit is discounted. We analyze BOGO in manufacturer-retailer supply chains. We identify conditions under which BOGO outperforms price reduction (PR) and everyday low...

Make-to-stock suppliers with regular buyers must balance the cost of overstocking against the cost arising from the buyers' reactions when items are unavailable. In selecting which buyers to satisfy when shortages occur, they must weigh the current revenue from the satisfied buyers against the...

Firms often encourage existing customers to recruit new customers. In this paper, we analytically study the customer referrals in a two-period newsvendor model, where the demand generated by referrals increases in the previous sales. In this framework, we establish the structural results for the...

Problem definition: Manufacturers' production capacity may be disrupted as a result of a pandemic outbreak, trade frictions, military conflicts, etc. This paper develops a two-period supply chain model with disruption risk in the second period to investigate firms' inventory decisions and the...

In this study, we examine how a retailer can manage capital, inventories, and labor under an extreme condition such as a temporary negative demand shock due to a pandemic or an economic turmoil. We assume that both the labor and capital markets are imperfect and trading in those markets is...