Problem Definition and Academic/Practical Relevance: Most supply networks are characterized by firms that source from multiple suppliers and suppliers that serve multiple firms, thus resulting in suppliers who differ in their degree centrality, i.e., the number of firms they supply to. In such...

The common wisdom is that a retailer will get hurt when its wholesale supplier encroaches on the retailer's territory by selling directly to the same end market. Motivated by practices in variety of industries that supplier with random supply loss maintain dual channel structure, this study...

When a supplier serves multiple buyers, the buyers often reserve the supplier's capacity in advance to secure the supply to fulfill their demand. In this paper, we analyze two common types of capacity reservation: exclusive and first-priority reservations. Both reservations give a buyer first...

We study assembly supply chains with multiple contractors. In such settings, the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) sometimes outsources component production to different contractors, and the final product revenue may depend on the performance of the slowest (or most unlucky) contractor. To...

The Operations Management literature has investigated the role of auditing, testing, and inspections, in ensuring socially responsible actions by supply-chain partners. Specifically, studies have examined the auditing of suppliers for noncompliance of socially responsible practices, and the...