Online retailers utilize lateral transshipment to meet the immediate shortage of demand at one location from surplus at another location within their retailing network. One option to reduce such potentially expensive transshipment is to hold additional safety stock at each location. We...

We study a supply planning problem in a manufacturing system with two stages. The first stage is a remanufacturer that supplies two closely-related components to the second (manufacturing) stage, which uses each component as the basis for its respective product. The used products are recovered...

We investigate the impact of the process of manufacturing and distribution on the safety stock levels in a supply chain. A pipeline hedging method is used to derive a model for estimating the safety stock levels. We propose methods and guidelines to redesign the manufacturing and distribution...