The capability to improve market responsiveness to meet future uncertain demand is acritical imperative for many firms today. Flexibility in the supply chain to accommodatesuch changes in demand is a function of the alternative routes a product may take as it travelsfrom the plant where it is...

We consider capacity management with a long-term strategic choice, such as the number of production lines to install before demand is known, and short-time tactical decisions relating to production, inventory and subcontracting (recourse actions made after demand is known).[...]

This paper studies a model of telecommunication network installation by companies in the Broadband-access business, specialized to the fixed-wire case. Under stochastic demand (modeled using scenarios), we maximize expected demand coverage subject to a budget constraint on hub installation, and...

We compare the benefits and costs of two alternative manufacturing network configurations inthe presence of component commonality. We evaluate the trade-off between the decreasedlogistics costs and loss of risk-pooling benefits in plant networks which consolidate allcomponent manufacturing...

This paper compares the commonly-used periodic-review, replenishment interval, order-up-to (R, T) policy to the continuous review, reorder point, order quantity, (Q, r) model. [...]