This paper addresses the horizontal coordination between production units located in different countries within a supply chain in a changing environment. The model incorporates (1) congestion and delay through uncertainties in demand and processing times, (2) a changing production cost...

We consider information sharing in a decentralized supply chain where one manufacturer supplies to multiple retailers competing in price. Each retailer has some private information about the uncertain demand function which he may choose to disclose to the manufacturer. The manufacturer then sets...

We propose a model in which subcontracting can be explicitly considered as a production planning strategy. Possible market and nonmarket subcontracting mechanisms and their costs are discussed. We show that a class of feasible subcontracting mechanisms in which firms coordinate their production...

We present a model of market competition in which customer preferences are over not only price and quality but also delivery speed. This allows a study of market demand and firms' decisions on price, quality, technology and responsiveness in a competitive environment. When demand arises, a...

This paper examines the incentives for firms to share information vertically in a two-level supply chain in which there are an upstream firm (a manufacturer) and many downstream firms (retailers). The retailers are engaged in a Cournot competition and are endowed with some private information....

The paper operationalizes the notion of shortage cost by considering the behavior of customers and competing firms and examines the role of inventory in response time competition. We start with a single-firm production control model in which customers are characterized by their preferences of...

We study the structure of the optimal policies for a firm operating plants in different countries. The relative costs of production between the plants are assumed to vary over time due to economic and political factors such as exchange rates, inflation, taxes, and tariffs. Based on the costs,...

We consider a supply chain in which two suppliers compete for supply to a customer. Pricing and delivery-frequency decisions in the system are analyzed by two three-stage noncooperative games with different decision rights designated to the parties involved. The customer first sets the price (or...