How should managers take into account the propagation of supply chain disruptions and risks (i.e. the ripple effect) when they design their inventory policies? For over 60 years, various extensions and applications to the popular newsvendor model have been suggested, where cost/profit are often the focal objective. We propose a new version of the traditional single-period newsvendor model - the ”Rippled

Servitization has been viewed as an important method for manufacturers to gain competitive advantages. The purpose of the study is to empirically examine the effects of lean and agile practices as well as mass customization and product innovation capabilities on the implementation of servitization. The hypotheses are empirically examined using structural equation modeling with data collected from 647

While manufacturing firms increasingly adopt servitization, with which they shift the basis of their competitive edge from the product-based mode to the service-based mode, they have to find approaches to implement servitization successfully. An initial attempt to achieve this is to make proper internal organizational changes towards service orientation. However, how do these changes affect firm performance

Recent empirical studies have refined our understanding of engineer-to-order (ETO) situations, supporting the existence of different order-fulfilment strategies based on the degree of customer involvement in the engineering and production activities, which differs depending on the strategic fit with the environment in which the company operates. Despite the importance of this finding, limited attempts

Current trends related to increased sustainability requirements, the application of new digital technologies, and changes in consumer behavior have disrupted conventional food supply chains, entailing challenges for the last mile logistics and distribution of food products. The main aim of this study is to develop a toolset for exploring the sustainability potential of last mile logistics and distribution

Reusable transport items (RTI), as a sustainable solution to the increasing packaging wastes generated along with the ever-growing globalized supply chains, create both challenges and opportunities to organizations for their management. A trend of organizations outsourcing their RTI activities explains the rapid emerging of a third-party RTI pooler. Yet few research studies have been conducted from

As the number of supply disruptions is increasing in frequency and severity, firms should not wait idly until an event occurs to act on it. This paper empirically identifies the key capabilities that the PSM function develops and maintains in order to increase resilience in the supply-side of the buying firm. Dyadic case studies were conducted with four buying and supplying companies in Brazil in order

Time-varying behavioral features and non-linear dependence are widely observed in big data and challenge the operating systems and processes of risk management in financial services. In order to improve the operational accuracy of risk measures and incorporate customer behavior analytics, we propose a Bayesian approach to efficiently estimate the multivariate risk measures in a dynamic framework. The

Raw material down conversion is common in practice, in which high-end raw materials may be transformed into low-end materials to make low-end products at a down-conversion cost. Motivated by this phenomenon, this paper investigates the profit-maximizing manufacturer’s joint input quantity, down-conversion policy and pricing decisions in a co-production system wherein two vertical differentiated products

Industry 4.0 considers complex interrelated IoT-based technologies for the provision of digital solutions. Such a complexity demands a vast set of capabilities that are hard to be found in a single technology provider, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Innovation ecosystems allow SMEs to integrate resources and cocreate Industry 4.0 solutions. We aim to understand how such ecosystems

Secondary market where used or refurbished products are traded has attracted many independent refurbishers (IRs) to engage in refurbishing. It poses competitions for new product sales of the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and presents new market opportunities for OEMs as well. Many OEMs have adopted refurbishing authorization as one form of cooperation. As a result, it is common that authorized

This paper argues both small and large firms use different resource allocation patterns to benefit from implementing environmental management practices (EMPs) and environmental management systems (EMS). Results from the multi-group structural equation analyses of a survey of manufacturing firms in two countries support the resource allocation arguments - large firms use resource-demanding EMPs such

Modularity in military vehicle designs facilitates assembly, disassembly, and the reconfiguration (ADR) of vehicles, which can be beneficial in promoting fleet adaptability and life cycle cost savings. This paper illustrates an agent-based approach to the optimal management of fleet operation and to control the resupply, demand prediction, and scheduling process. The agent-based approach is customized

Time-based competition has attracted a lot of attention since the 1980s. Supply chain managers have tried various approaches to improve their performance by lead-time reduction: both lead-time itself and its variance. This paper explores and quantifies these benefits of such lead-time reduction for commonly used reorder-point batch-ordering inventory policies. Rather than using approximate total cost

The pivotal shift from single-use to reusable packaging has recently challenged the concept of packaging ownership. Extant literature have studied supply chain systems using reusable packaging for bundling (known as secondary packaging) or transportation (known as tertiary packaging) of products. Although using reusable packaging for containing products (known as primary packaging) has been tested

This paper addresses a control problem within hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing systems (HMRS) evolving in a dynamic and stochastic environment. Unlike previous works, it contributes to the discourse by considering mixed dedicated and shared facilities (MDSF). It is motivated by the need to integrate the remanufacturing flow while increasing the capacity of the system to react to uncertainties (random

E-commerce firms such as JD.com have launched logistics sharing alliance (LSA) by providing logistics services to the society. However, should their rivals having logistics service disadvantages join the LSA? In this paper, we formulate competing e-commerce firms' incentives regarding logistics cooperation via LSA. Firm A (she) offers LSA. Firm B (he) may guarantee customers a promised delivery time

This research examines the demand-dependent product recovery decision-making problem for a batch of products that undergo remanufacturing/dismantling via a hybrid recovery system. Product recovery provides an attractive approach to achieving sustainable manufacturing. Faced with changing demand, flexible recovery decisions on product recovery strategies, component recovery options, and recovery yields

In this article, we propose the Trinomial - ATTRIVAR (T-ATTRIVAR) control chart where attribute and variable sample data are used to control the process mean. Firstly, two discriminating limits sort the sample items into three excluding categories; that is, items in categories A, B, or AB, are, respectively, items with X dimensions smaller than the lower discriminating limit, larger than the upper

Tactical Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) has emerged as an extension of the aggregate production planning, integrating mid-term decisions from procurement, production, distribution, and sales in a single plan. Despite the growing interest in the subject, past synthesizing research has focused more on the qualitative and procedural aspects of the topic rather than on modeling approaches to the

Many service systems in the fast food industry consist of two types of customers: fastidious and strategic. A fastidious customer will always join the queue and wait for a fresh product, while a strategic customer, depending on queue length and on stock availability, may either join the queue for fresh products, purchase an inventoried pre-prepared (perishable) product, or balk. When the system is

This study aims to investigate overall supply chain network resilience (SCNR) in the presence of ripple effect, or risk propagation, i.e. the phenomenon that disruptions at a few firms in a supply chain network (SCN) can spread to their neighboring firms, then eventually spread to other firms in the SCN. We begin by developing a multi-dimensional quantitative framework to measure SCNR, which includes

Electronic reverse logistics topic has received growing attention because of its environmental and economic impact. In Canada, the province of Ontario has enacted regulations regarding the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Recycling program. The objective of this study is to develop a novel scenario-based robust possibilistic approach to optimize and configure an electronic reverse logistics

Organizational sustainability requires production systems improvement and adaptation simultaneously balancing environmental, social and business dimensions. This exploratory study investigates how quality management exploitation and exploration may ambidextrously contribute to support environmentally sustainable production development. The study uses data collected through an online survey from ISO

A dual-toll policy, considering a multi-degree fuzzy incident rate, is proposed to mitigate the risk caused by hazardous material (hazmat) transportation in a road network. To address several carriers transporting multiple hazmat types, we use a bi-level programming formulation. The upper and lower levels, respectively, exemplify decision problems faced by the regulators (regional and local governments)

In the inventory financing business, an optimal impawn rate (loan-to-value ratio) can help the inventory financing providers (IFPs, she) maintain competitiveness in the inventory financing market. However, the literature has been silent on how IFPs can optimise the business through the optimisation of the impawn rate. This study examines the role of the optimal impawn rate in the inventory financing

The paper uniquely investigates the relationship between supply chain social sustainability practices and supply chain performance in small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SME's) in an Asian country. In this paper, we utilized semi-structured interviews of supply chain managers and practitioners to unearth the social sustainability dimensions, followed by a survey using structured questionnaire

In dynamic markets where cost of components changes fast, buyers typically auction off regular short-term contracts to fully leverage supplier competition in each period to continuously source from the lowest-cost supplier. However, too much competition through short-term contracts does not incentivize the incumbent supplier to make relation-specific investments in reducing costs, as future business

The present study assesses supply chain resilience based on network structural parameters. Resilience is computed as a composite effect of density, centrality, connectivity, and network size of the network. A simulation-based approach is adopted, wherein networks of 23 firms operating in India are subjected to risk combinations of five mutually inclusive independent scenarios of probability levels

The Vehicle Routing Problem with Split Deliveries (VRPSD) is a decision model that is increasingly used in practice to enhance the efficiency of last-mile distribution, an important task which all manufacturing, distribution, and retail firms must perform. In its current form, however, the VRPSD is missing an important cost saving opportunity by not allowing interactions among multiple vehicles that

The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is one of the most important corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives aimed at aligning companies' strategies and operations with principles that involve human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the relationship between UNGC adoption and firm performance. Starting from a literature analysis

Growing interest surrounds how sustainable practices can be incorporated into a company's supply base. A growing stream of research has examined how companies can incorporate “green” criteria into their supplier selection decisions. This research focuses on a specialized supplier selection decision: transportation carriers. Trucking companies in particular are under pressure to reduce their environmental

This paper examines Single and Dynamic Pricing Policies of two competing firms over two periods in the presence of social influence. Assuming two firms adopt the same pricing policy, we find that, under either pricing policy, firm profits always decrease with the degree of social influence. Firms prefer Dynamic Pricing Policy when social influence is either relatively weak or sufficiently strong (for

Scheduling decisions related to due date assignment, order release and priority dispatching affect multiple performance dimensions simultaneously. Previous job-shop studies based on simulation and multiobjective optimization techniques do not explore the goals that a decision-maker (DM) wishes to reach, when assessing compensations between multiple benefits and potential impacts yielded by a combination

This research explores stakeholder salience and sustainability learning efforts of apparel manufacturers operating in an emerging economy. An organizational view of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is conceptualized to delineate mechanisms that facilitate the implementation of supply chain sustainability. Data is collected from survey responses from 156 apparel manufacturers operating in

Various sustainable development goals (SDG's) that have been achieved with current economic business models initiated the new socioeconomic system known as the “sharing economy.” This collaborative economy system shares resources among communities and further assists to reduce both negative environmental and societal impacts and to reduce costs. The importance of this endeavor urges researchers to

The academic community and practitioners widely recognize the significance of risk management and integrative practices in supply chains to deal with complexity and uncertainties faced. Firms strive to manage risk, handle unexpected disruptions and improve performance in ever changing uncertain business environments. This paper builds upon the information processing view of risk management and explores

In this research, we primarily aim at investigating whether take-back regulation encourages remanufacturing (as a preferred product recovery option) or Eco-design. For this purpose, we assume a manufacturer that produces and distributes a single product, which is regulated by a take-back environmental regulation imposed by a regulator seeking social welfare maximization. At time zero, the regulator

Manufacturing planning and control systems ideally seek to simultaneously achieve short and predictable flow times as well as high output and due-date performance. One approach to address this problem is the workload control concept. It is based on the idea to control lead times by controlling order releases and thus the level of work-in-process and output. The focus of this paper is on multi-period

We propose a data-driven allocation planning approach, which is designed for use in advanced planning systems as they are widely used in industrial environments. The approach exploits increasingly available data on individual customers and products by allocating supply on a highly granular level at high planning frequencies. It counteracts rationing gaming by customers, which we assume to be the reason

The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating effect of a firm's R&D investment in mitigating supply chain disruptions. We use four categories of disruption risks in a supply chain: demand, process, supply, and environmental. Building upon dynamic capability theory, we examine the relationships among a firm's R&D investment, supply chain disruption risk drivers, supply chain performance, and

In this paper we present a novel transshipment problem for a large apparel retailer that operates an extensive retail network. Our problem is inspired by the logistics operations of a very large fast fashion retailer in Turkey, LC Waikiki, with over 475 retail branches and thousands of products. The purpose of transshipments is to rebalance stocks across the retail network to better match supply with

We consider the production control problem of a production/inventory system with correlated demand inter-arrival and processing times that are modeled as Markovian Arrival Processes. The control problem is minimizing the expected average cost of the system in the steady-state by controlling when to produce an available part. We prove that the optimal control policy is the state-dependent threshold

We investigate how the network position of organisations in an extended supply chain network impacts their financial performance. The paper argues that performance measurement tools should incorporate a network (external, connectedness) perspective in addition to an internal financial perspective. We merge local networks of companies in a supply chain into a single, extended network in which the transactional

Consumer preferences for different levels of product quality have become increasingly diverse. Thus, more and more firms are providing products with a variety of quality levels, in order to satisfy consumer demands. This study develops a premium-product supply chain optimization model. The model contains multi-firms who compete in a common market. Each firm adopts a vertical integration strategy and

The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework for analyzing the relationships among Additive Manufacturing adoption, flexibility, and performance in the supply chain context. No empirical study was found in the supply chain literature that specifically examines the relationships among Additive Manufacturing adoption, flexibility and performance; the paper fills an important gap in

We developed a model that integrates the schedule of a sequence of resumable jobs and inspection policy for the processing of n jobs with different processing times in a single-component system, whose failures follow a two-stage process. The assignment of inspections is performed at the beginning of the job; if an inspection detects the system to be in a defective state, preventive replacement is performed

Suppliers’ insufficient capital can disrupt the normal operations of other participants in the supply chain. To alleviate suppliers’ capital constraints, retailers have the option of providing financing. However, when addressing the risks of default, retailers should behave conservatively and sensitively, which results in loss-averse behaviors. Using a game theoretical approach, this study examines

The paper analyzes a profit-maximizing serial replacement problem under variable asset productivity, operating cost, and replacement cost that depend on asset age and installation time. The majority of modern asset replacement models minimize costs. The authors examine and highlight essential differences between profit-maximizing and cost-minimizing replacement strategies in the infinite-horizon framework

Immediately after a major disaster large volumes of solicited and unsolicited relief items start to flow into the disaster affected region. This phenomenon is known as material convergence. The sheer volume of incoming materials, coupled with limited resources, make sorting and distribution of relief items a difficult task. The challenge is exacerbated when a large portion of the unsolicited donations

This paper presents a decision making model that considers distribution centers locating, pickup and delivery vehicle routing, and direct shipment simultaneously. The goal is to optimize the distribution centers’ location, the delivery, pickup, and direct shipment routes so that the total costs are minimized. Two types of delivery modes are considered. In the first type, each vehicle loads the same

The damped trend model is a strong benchmark for time series forecasting. This model is usually estimated by adopting the innovations approach rather than the structural one, since the latter is more complex, requiring the use of the Kalman filter. In this paper, we introduce a simple method for estimating the damped trend using the structural approach. The proposed method relies on the analytical

The study analyzes the coping practices that emerge when a manufacturer of standardized products and add-on services expands to provide customized solutions. Based on a comparative case study methodology conducted across four case companies, and an analysis of extensive documentary data, the study challenges the dichotomous ‘either-or thinking’ in servitization research and highlights ‘both-and thinking’

This study develops an integrated vendor–buyer inventory model for a supply chain where quality issues and human error affect its coordination. Each lot shipped to the buyer contains defective items, with a rate which randomly changes from a lot to the other. The buyer inspects every shipped lot to segregate defective items. However, the inspection process at the buyer’s end goes wrong in the classification

The challenge being addressed in this paper is how best to prepare production for the potential disruptive events in order to minimise the impact of these unexpected disturbances. In particular, the paper is focusing on two particular approaches to disruption preparation. The first examines the optimal location and quantity of inventory or “work-in-progress”. The second explores the role of inspection

This research addresses distributed decisions for dynamic partnership reformation to enhance fairness and efficiency among collaborative networked enterprises (CNEs). The aim of this research is to investigate a new sharing protocol (SP) to control CNEs. Most CNE studies are designed under a centralized SP. However, centralized SPs appear to be unfeasible or inadequate due to enterprises’ operating

Although conflicts are being studied in many different management fields there seems to be a rather restricted number of studies on inventory management-related conflicts and it is for this reason why we conducted a study on exploring the different types of conflicts, their causes and the emerging character of conflicts during the shaping, implementation and usage of inventory systems. In doing so

Recent studies in project management have shown the important role of entrepreneurship orientation of the individuals in project performance. Although identifying the role of entrepreneurship orientation as a critical success factor in project performance has been considered as an important issue, it is also important to develop a measurement system for predicting performance based on the degree of

We consider a dual-channel supply chain consisting of a manufacturer, an online retailer, and a physical store, where the online order is fulfilled by either the conventional wholesale contract or the drop-shipping contract. We study the vertical and horizontal competitions among the three members via considering different power structures of the supply chain. To derive the contract choices of the