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Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis

DeHoratius, Nicole; Raman, Ananth - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 4, pp. 627-641

and retail stores. Examining nearly 370,000 inventory records from 37 stores of one retailer, we find 65% to be inaccurate …

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Contingent Effects of Quality Signaling: Evidence from the Indian Offshore IT Services Industry

Guodong (Gordon) Gao; Gopal, Anandasivam; Agarwal, Ritu - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 6, pp. 1012-1029

industry. Prior theory has argued that quality certification is important in markets characterized by information asymmetry … on capability maturity model (CMM) certification, which is granted on the basis of a rigorous audit of software vendor … strategy and economics, we theorize that the impacts of CMM certification on a vendor's export performance are conditional on …

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Performance Measurement and Design in Supply Chains

Baiman, Stanley; Fischer, Paul E.; Rajan, Madhav V. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 1, pp. 173-188

This paper examines the relationship between product architecture, supply-chain performance metrics, and supply-chain efficiency. We model the contracting relationship between a supplier and a buyer. The supplier is privately informed about the outcome of his design/production investment. The...

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Competition in Multiechelon Assembly Supply Chains

Carr, Scott M.; Karmarkar, Uday S. - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 1, pp. 45-59

In this paper, we study competition in multiechelon supply chains with an assembly structure. Firms in the supply chain are grouped into homogenous sectors (nodes) that contain identical firms with identical production capabilities that all produce exactly one undifferentiated product (that may...

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The Make-or-Buy Decision in the Presence of a Rival: Strategic Outsourcing to a Common Supplier

Arya, Anil; Mittendorf, Brian; Sappington, David E. M. - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 10, pp. 1747-1758

is not necessarily the case when a monopolistic input supplier also serves the firm's retail rival. In this case, the … otherwise have to provide the input on particularly favorable terms to the retail rival. Thus, a retail competitor may pay a …

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Analysis and Optimization of a Multistage Inventory-Queue System

Liu, Liming; Liu, Xiaoming; Yao, David D. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 3, pp. 365-380

An important issue in the management of supply chains and manufacturing systems is to control inventory costs at different locations throughout the system while satisfying an end-customer service-level requirement. The challenge involved is to solve a nonlinear constrained optimization problem...

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Competition and Structure in Serial Supply Chains with Deterministic Demand

Corbett, Charles J.; Karmarkar, Uday S. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 7, pp. 966-978

Supply chains often consist of several tiers, with different numbers of firms competing at each tier. A major determinant of the structure of supply chains is the cost structure associated with the underlying manufacturing process. In this paper, we examine the impact of fixed and variable costs...

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Arya, Anil; Mittendorf, Brian; Yoon, Dae-Hee - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 11, pp. 1850-1860

with these wholesale customers in the retail realm. Such dual distribution arrangements commonly suffer from excessive … encroachment in that the manufacturer's ex post retail aggression is harmful ex ante because it undercuts potential wholesale … encroach on its retail territory. This, in turn, permits the manufacturer to reap greater wholesale profits. We also note that …

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Exclusive Territories and Manufacturers' Collusion

Piccolo, Salvatore; Reisinger, Markus - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 7, pp. 1250-1266

This paper highlights the rationale for exclusive territories in a model of repeated interaction between competing supply chains. We show that with observable contracts exclusive territories have two countervailing effects on manufacturers' incentives to sustain tacit collusion. First, granting...

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Strategic Customer Behavior, Commitment, and Supply Chain Performance

Su, Xuanming; Zhang, Fuqiang - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 10, pp. 1759-1773

This paper studies the impact of strategic customer behavior on supply chain performance. We start with a newsvendor seller facing forward-looking customers. The seller initially charges a regular price but may salvage the leftover inventory at a lower salvage price after random demand is...

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