To achieve intelligent superstore site selection, Yonghui Superstores partnered with Cardinal Operations to incorporate a tremendous amount of site-related information (e.g., points of interest, population density and features, distribution of competitors, transportation, commercial ecosystem,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to achieve intelligent superstore site selection. Yonghui Superstores partnered with Cardinal Operations to incorporate a tremendous amount of site-related information (e.g. points of interest, population density and features, distribution of competitors,...

When a weak-brand firm and a strong-brand firm source from a common contract manufacturer, the weak-brand firm may advertise this relationship to promote its own product. This paper investigates whether the weak-brand firm should use such brand spillover as a marketing strategy and how this...

Motivated by the recent backshoring trend, this paper studies a sourcing game where competing firms may choose between efficient sourcing (e.g., sourcing from overseas) and responsive sourcing (e.g., sourcing from home country). Efficient sourcing usually provides a cost advantage, while...

TThis paper studies the impact of fairness concerns on supply chain performance (SCP) in the two-party newsvendor setting. We extend prior fairness analysis to a wide range of demand distributions, and also allow the degree and definition of fairness to assume a broader range of preferences than...

Refining is indispensable to almost every natural resource-based commodity industry. It involves a series of complex processes that transform inputs with a wide range of quality characteristics into refined finished products sold to end markets. In this paper, we take the perspective of a...

We study hedging cash flow risks in a supply chain where firms invest internal funds to improve production efficiencies. We offer a decomposition framework to capture the cost reduction and flexibility effect of hedging. It allows us to understand how a firm's hedging choice depends on its...

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...

Supply chains in key growth industries increasingly commercialize a critical piece of technology invented by an upstream technology supplier. The focal technology is licensed to specialist design firms and designed into products, which are fabricated by dedicated large-scale manufacturers. We...

Integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) and foundries are two types of manufacturers in the semiconductor industry. IDMs integrate both design and manufacturing functions whereas foundries solely focus on manufacturing. Since foundries often have cost advantage over IDMs due to their...