Strategic evaluation of supplier performance assists firms in improving their operations across a variety of dimensions. Specifically, it aids in supplier process improvement, which in turn enhances firm performance, allows for optimal allocation of resources for supplier development programs,...

Intense media scrutiny and public backlash stimulate consumers to be conscientious about sustainability issues from the supply chain (SC) perspective. Accordingly, our focus in this article is on joint sustainability issues in a manufacturer-supplier relationship under a contract that possibly...

Analytically solving the classic newsvendor problem relies on a known demand distribution. In practice, however, it is not easy to approximate a sufficiently accurate demand distribution. This results in the obtained analytical solution may not be optimal. To address this issue, we propose a...