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Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect

Lee, Hau L.; Padmanabhan, V.; Whang, Seungjin - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 4, pp. 546-558

Consider a series of companies in a supply chain, each of whom orders from its immediate upstream member. In this setting, inbound orders from a downstream member serve as a valuable informational input to upstream production and inventory decisions. This paper claims that the information...

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Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect

Lee, Hau L.; Padmanabhan, V.; Whang, Seungjin - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 12_supplement, pp. 1875-1886

(This article originally appeared in Management Science, April 1997, Volume 43, Number 4, pp. 546--558, published by The Institute of Management Sciences.) Consider a series of companies in a supply chain, each of whom orders from its immediate upstream member. In this setting, inbound orders...

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Manufacturer Benefits from Information Integration with Retail Customers

Kulp, Susan Cohen; Lee, Hau L.; Ofek, Elie - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 4, pp. 431-444

Information integration efforts between manufacturers and retailers, in the form of information sharing, synchronized replenishment, and collaborative product design and development, have been cited as major means to improve supply chain performance. This paper develops a conceptual framework...

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Clustering, Agency Costs and Operating Efficiency: Evidence from Nursing Home Chains

Lu, Susan F.; Wedig, Gerard J. - In: Management Science 59 (2013) 3, pp. 677-694

organizational substitute. In this paper we explore geographic clustering as an alternative strategy for controlling managerial … agency costs within the chain form of organization. Clustering may facilitate scale efficiencies in both monitoring and …. The clustering effect is concentrated on reductions in minor/potential harm violations, which are difficult to observe …

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Managing Delegated Search Over Design Spaces

Erat, Sanjiv; Krishnan, Vish - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 3, pp. 606-623

results independently establish and offer a causal explanation for an interesting phenomenon observed in design contests--clustering …

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Telecommunication Node Clustering with Node Compatibility and Network Survivability Requirements

Park, Kyungchul; Lee, Kyungsik; Park, Sungsoo; Lee, Heesang - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 3, pp. 363-374

We consider the node clustering problem that arises in designing a survivable two-level telecommunication network. The … locations in each cluster. Intercluster traffic minimization is chosen as the clustering criterion to improve the service … quality. Various constraints on the clustering are considered which reflect both the physical structures of local networks …

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Maximizing the Efficiency of the U.S. Liver Allocation System Through Region Design

Kong, Nan; Schaefer, Andrew J.; Hunsaker, Brady; … - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 12, pp. 2111-2122

Cadaveric liver transplantation is the only viable therapy for end-stage liver disease patients without a living donor. However, this type of transplantation is hindered in the United States by donor scarcity and rapid viability decay. Given these difficulties, the current U.S. liver allocation...

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An Optimization Based Heuristic for Political Districting

Mehrotra, Anuj; Johnson, Ellis L.; Nemhauser, George L. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 8, pp. 1100-1114

Redistricting, the redrawing of congressional district boundaries within the states, may occur every 10 years on the basis of the population census. Many redistricting plans are designed with partisan politics in mind, resulting in disputes and forcing judges to intervene. We address this...

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