Matching supply, demand, and capacity is made more costly and less efficient when demand variation is amplified into work-in-process, or backlog, variation. Existing research has focused on managing variations in backlog quantity. This paper extends that research by examining how variation in...

The successful use of lean manufacturing (LM) practices requires more than the use of tools. Although manufacturing facilities worldwide use LM practices, dimensions of a nation׳s culture may moderate LM׳s effect on operating performance. Based on operational and organizational behavior...

In volatile, long-lead time and short selling-season markets, a secondary market enables buyers to update their inventory during the selling season. The decision of when to update involves complicated trade-offs between forecast accuracy, expected lost sales, and average purchasing cost. We use...