After many decades on focusing only on quantitative approaches for making decisions in manufacturing and supply chain management, researchers in operations management have recently acknowledged the importance of understanding the human behavior tendencies underlying these decisions. The result...

A Dedicated Subnetwork (DSN) refers to a subset of lanes with associated loads in a shipper’s transportation network, for which a fleet of resources – trucks, drivers, and other equipment – is exclusively assigned to carry out all shipping requirements. The resources assigned to a DSN are...

For most multi-period decision-making problems, it is generally well-accepted that the influence of information about later periods on the optimal decision in the current period reduces as we move farther into the future. If and when this influence reduces to zero, the corresponding problem...