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product categories signifying different shopping orientations; across culturally distinct regions; and across different stages …
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on the Internet. Consumer-Generated Media (CGM) describes a variety of new sources of online information that are created …
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Internet. Using purchase and fulfillment records from the U.S. government's Federal Supply Service, we provide a direct … comparison of performance between a private network EDI channel and an Internet electronic market. Performance is measured using … order cycle time and complete orders fulfilled. Our findings show that the Internet-based electronic market outperforms the …
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We consider a serial inventory system with N stages. The material flows from an outside supplier to stage N, then to stage N - 1, etc., and finally to stage 1 where random customer demand arises. Each stage replenishes a stage-specific inventory position according to a stage-specific reorder...
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In this paper we study how the time-series structure of the demand process affects the value of information sharing in a supply chain. We consider a two-stage supply chain model in which a retailer serves autoregressive moving-average (ARMA) demand and a manufacturer fills the retailer's orders....
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Many companies have embarked on initiatives that enable more demand information sharing between retailers and their upstream suppliers. While the literature on such initiatives in the business press is proliferating, it is not clear how one can quantify the benefits of these initiatives and how...
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In a recent paper, Lee, So, and Tang (2000) showed that in a two-level supply chain with non-stationary AR(1) end demand, the manufacturer benefits significantly when the retailer shares point-of-sale (POS) demand data. We show in this paper, analytically and through simulation, that the...
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Radio frequency identification (RFID) is considered a technology of the future, but RFID chips have long established themselves in our everyday lives. RFID systems combine the physical world of a product with the virtual world of digital data. Projects based on RFID far transcend simply...
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Internet technology has allowed for a higher degree of decoupling between the information-intensive sales process and … the physical process of inventory management than its brick-and-mortar counterpart. As a result, some Internet retailers … Internet retailers to test whether empirical data are consistent with these hypotheses. Finally, given the strategic importance …
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Reverse supply chain is a new management mode to win competition for enterprises; information system is an effective tool to support the implementation of reverse supply chain management in enterprises. A system structure was set up and the information integration model was put forward based on...
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