Overlapping of development stages and interaction between different functions are regarded as important strategies for reducing development lead time. However, overlapping typically requires additional costs for rework and functional interaction increases communication time. This paper presents...

Testing is an important activity in product development. Past studies, which are developed to determine the optimal scheduling of tests, often focused on single-stage testing of sequential design process. This paper presents an analytical model for the scheduling of tests in overlapped design...

Shorter product life cycles in many industries impel firms to accelerate the product development process. Overlapping development stages, combined with frequent information exchange, is commonly regarded as a core technique for faster product development. However, overlapping and communication...

We present a robust model for determining the optimal order quantity and market selection for short-life-cycle products in a single period, newsvendor setting. Due to limited information about demand distribution in particular for short-life-cycle products, stochastic modeling approaches may not...

One of the greatest challenges in managing product development projects is identifying an appropriate sequence of many coupled activities. The current study presents an effective approach for determining the activity sequence with minimum total feedback time in a design structure matrix (DSM)....

Meca et al. (2004) studied a class of inventory games which arise when a group of retailers who observe demand for a common item decide to cooperate and make joint orders with the EOQ policy. In this paper, we extend their model to the situation where retailer’s delay in payments is permitted...