We consider an on-demand service platform using earning sensitive independent providers with heterogeneous reservation price (for work participation) to serve its time and price sensitive customers with heterogeneous valuation of the service. As such, both the supply and demand are...

We analyze a decentralized assembly system with two types of component suppliers: one (commanding suppliers) has strong bargaining power who demands a wholesale price contract and the other (subordinate suppliers) has weak bargaining power who accepts a revenue sharing contract from the...

This paper studies the impact of supply reliability on a retail firm's performance under joint marketing and inventory decisions. The firm sells a product in a single selling season and can exert marketing effort to influence consumer demand. We develop a modeling framework to quantify the value...

Balancing supply and demand for a dockless bike-sharing system is difficult as users are allowed to pick up and return bikes anywhere within a large service area. One strategy to help manage the amount of dockless bikes scattered within a service area is to offer monetary rewards for users who...

While advance booking programs have been shown to be effective for …firms to manage uncertain demand, the effectiveness of such programs is unclear when supply, demand, and price risks are present in a supply chain. Motivated by an advance booking program for managing these three types of...

We show how to extend the demand planning stage of the sales-and-operations-planning (S&OP) process with a spreadsheet implementation of a stochastic programming model that determines the supply requirement while optimally trading off risks of unmet demand, excess inventory and inadequate...

We analyzed the text of 704 online advertisements of supply chain management jobs for MBA graduates. The content analysis of these job advertisements provided us with a list of supply chain topics, such as inventory management and supply management, and general skills, such as communication and...

While advance booking programs have been shown to be effective for firms to manage uncertain demand, the e¤ectiveness of such programs is unclear when supply, demand, and price risks are present in a supply chain. Motivated by an advance booking program for managing these three types of risks...

This paper examines the impact of Fee-for-Service and Bundled Payment reimbursement schemes on the social welfare, the patient revisit rate, and the patient waiting time in a three-tiered public healthcare system comprising: (a) a public funder who decides on the reimbursement rate to maximize...

To incentivize on-time delivery performance, meal delivery platforms often penalize their drivers for late deliveries. However, fierce competition forces these platforms to quote short meal delivery times. But shorter delivery times create extra pressure for drivers to drive at excessive speeds...