Motivated by a project in health-care management, we study the resource allocation problem in multisite service systems with intersite customer flows. We aim at providing insights to and guidelines for resource allocation in these service systems when some service criterion, such as average...

Product returns have become a significant feature of many manufacturing systems. Because products are returned under different operational conditions, they usually require different remanufacturing effort/costs. Motivated by a project with a major energy company that manages its inventory...

Motivated by the incentive programs that have been offered by energy companies under tight market conditions in the past few years, we consider a production control problem in which time alternates randomly between peak and nonpeak periods. During peak periods, the energy supplier offers the...

This paper proposes that sales and demands information are equally important in the supply chain. It discusses the role of factors in chorological forecasting and puts forth the supply chain collaborative forecasting methods based on factors and presents the relevant empirical studies. In the...

We introduce the concept of conditional value-at-risk as the evaluation criterion in a supply contract model. We first derive the manufacturer's optimal decisions and then analyze the impact of risk aversion on the manufacturer's decisions. We follow by conducting numerical experiments to...

This paper proposes a new hierarchical economic information filtering model for vendor selection, consisting of three phases in which leading enterprises select their vendors, namely, the phase of collecting and releasing information, the phase of selecting vendors and the phase of dynamic...