Auto-delivery is a subscription model widely employed in supply chains, whereby a supplier delivers products to a buyer (or multiple buyers) according to the buyer's choice of a constant shipping quantity to be delivered at prescheduled dates. The buyer enjoys a discount for the auto-delivery...

Cloud computing has been recognized as a critical driver of Information-Technology (IT) enabled innovations. In this paper, we review recent cloud computing research from an Operations Management (OM) perspective, by focusing on major operations challenges faced by a cloud provider in three...

Rapid growth in the cloud services market provides tremendous opportunities to cloud providers who have invested heavily in computing capacities but also has led, at time, to low utilization of capacities. To alleviate this problem, some providers have launched a low-priority service with...

The recent trend of a surge in demand for cloud services has posed a challenging capacity expansion problem for the cloud providers: while the growths of demand for different capacity attributes (e.g., CPU and RAM) are time-varying and disproportionate, replenishments of these attributes are...

We study a two-stage supply chain, where the supplier procures a key component to manufacture a product and the retailer orders from the supplier to meet a price-sensitive demand. As the input price is volatile, the two parties enter into either a spot contract, where the retailer orders just...

Over the last decade, adoption of cloud computing has been accelerating, while firms are struggling to manage their growing cloud spending in the face of demand surges caused by planned or random events including marketing campaigns, new-product introduction, and natural disasters. In general, a...

This paper provides statistical learning techniques for determining the full own-price market impact and the relevance and effect of cross-price and cross-asset spillover channels from intraday transactions data. The novel tools allow extracting comprehensive information contained in the limit...

In recent years, there has been an increasing trend in supply chains to employ a “control tower” approach to improve supply chain performance. Such a strategy includes vendor- or supplier-managed-inventory (VMI or SMI) where the supplier takes over the control tower, and the other strategy...

This paper provides statistical learning techniques for determining the full own-price market impact and the relevance and effect of cross-price and cross-asset spillover channels from intraday transactions data. The novel tools allow extracting comprehensive information contained in the limit...