Search Results - subject:"Operations Strategy"

An empirical investigation of the relationships among supplier-based relationships (...)

Solís, Luis Eduardo - Área de Entorno Económico, Instituto de Empresa - 2004

This paper investigates the linkage between one aspect of supply chain strategy and TQM principles and outcomes. We empirically test the relationship among strategic quality planning, supplier-based relationships, and some TQM practices such as product design, product innovation, dependable...

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Fitness map: a classification of internal strategic fit in service organisations

Hill, Alex; Cuthbertson, Richard - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 31 (2011) 9, pp. 991-1021

alignment of operations strategy within an organisation is significantly and positively related to market share, whereas, the … alignment of the operations strategy nor the service delivery system appears to have a relationship with return on investment … implications – The fit‐performance relationships show how changes in the alignment of operations strategy and delivery system …

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Volume Flexibility, Product Flexibility, or Both: The Role of Demand Correlation and Product Substitution

Goyal, Manu; Netessine, Serguei - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13 (2011) 2, pp. 180-193

We analyze volume flexibility--the ability to produce above/below the installed capacity for a product--under endogenous pricing in a two-product setting. We discover that the value of volume flexibility is a function of demand correlation between products, an outcome that cannot be explained by...

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Pricing Services Subject to Congestion: Charge Per-Use Fees or Sell Subscriptions?

Cachon, Gérard P.; Feldman, Pnina - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13 (2011) 2, pp. 244-260

Should a firm charge on a per-use basis or sell subscriptions when its service experiences congestion? Queueing-based models of pricing primarily focus on charging a fee per use for the service, in part because per-use pricing enables the firm to regulate congestion--raising the per-use price...

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How should you stabilise your supply chains?

Hills, Alex; Doran, Des; Stratton, Roy - In: International journal of production economics 135 (2011) 2, pp. 870-881

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Global Facility Network Design with Transshipment and Responsive Pricing

Dong, Lingxiu; Kouvelis, Panos; Su, Ping - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 12 (2010) 2, pp. 278-298

This paper considers the facility network design problem for a global firm that sells to two markets: the domestic market and a foreign market. Although the firm has to invest in capital-intensive production facilities and produce outputs in the face of demand and exchange rate uncertainties, it...

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Mitigating Supply Risk: Dual Sourcing or Process Improvement?

Wang, Yimin; Gilland, Wendell; Tomlin, Brian - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 12 (2010) 3, pp. 489-510

Surveys suggest that supply chain risk is a growing issue for executives and that supplier reliability is of particular concern. A common mitigation strategy is for the buying firm to expend effort improving the reliability of its supply base. We explore a model in which a firm can source from...

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The Impact of Quick Response in Inventory-Based Competition

Caro, Felipe; Martínez-de-Albéniz, Victor - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 12 (2010) 3, pp. 409-429

We propose an extension of the competitive newsvendor model to investigate the impact of quick response under competition. For this purpose, we consider two retailers that compete in terms of inventory: customers that face a stockout at their first-choice store will look for the product at the...

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Feasting on Leftovers: Strategic Use of Shortages in Price Competition Among Differentiated Products

Porteus, Evan L.; Shin, Hyoduk; Tunca, Tunay I. - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 12 (2010) 1, pp. 140-161

Two single-product firms with different quality levels and fixed limited capacities engage in sequential price competition in an essentially deterministic model where customers have heterogeneous valuations for both products. We develop conditions under which the leader (she) can take strategic...

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ERP Competence-Building Mechanisms: An Exploratory Investigation of Configurations of ERP Adopters in the European and U.S. Manufacturing Sectors

Masini, Andrea; Wassenhove, Luk N. Van - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 11 (2009) 2, pp. 274-298

This paper contributes to the literature on enterprise resource planning (ERP) by pursuing two objectives. First, it identifies configurations of ERP adopters that have similar needs and develop similar competencies. Second, it tests the hypothesis that, to maximize benefits from their ERP...

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