Advances in inventory and sales analytics make it possible to deliver products both cheaply and quickly, meeting the demands of today’s consumers.

This dissertation investigates the effects of real-time information on supply chain operations and strategies as well as an inventory control problem with retail pre-packs in three essays. The first essay considers an order promising problem in the presence of pseudo order information in an...

This dissertation deals with the problem bidders have to solve to formulate their bids in two types of auctions: reverse and combinatorial auctions.In reverse procurement auctions the object for sale is a contract, bidders are suppliers, and the bid taker is a buyer. The suppliers bidding for...

This dissertation explores coordination schemes that can be used to align the incentives of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and its contract manufacturer (CM). The coordination ismediated by demand forecast sharing and component overage risk sharing. Three major problems are studied:...