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Centralization of Stocks: Retailers vs. Manufacturer

Anupindi, Ravi; Bassok, Yehuda - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 2, pp. 178-191

A well-known result in inventory theory is that physical centralization of stocks in a system with multiple retailers decreases total costs and increases total profits for the retailers. However, does this centralization also benefit the manufacturer, whose goods the retailers stock, when...

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Pooling in Two-Location Inventory Systems with Non-Negligible Replenishment Lead Times

Tagaras, George; Cohen, Morris A. - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 8, pp. 1067-1083

. A class of partial pooling policies is proposed for the control of transshipments. The cost performance of this class of … policies is shown to be inferior to that of complete pooling. An approximate model and a heuristic algorithm are introduced to …

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Stocking Decisions for Low-Usage Items in a Multilocation Inventory System

Kukreja, Anil; Schmidt, Charles P.; Miller, David M. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 10, pp. 1371-1383

general, this work considers a single-echelon, N-location, continuous-review inventory system in which complete pooling of … applicability of the model. Savings achieved as a result of pooling are reported. …

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Pooling, Access, and Countervailing Power in Channel Governance

Hendrikse, George - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 9, pp. 1692-1702

presented to account for these changes by analysing the interactions between pooling, access, and countervailing power. This …

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Analysis of the Impact of Team-Based Organizations in Call Center Management

Jouini, Oualid; Dallery, Yves; Nait-Abdallah, Rabie - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 2, pp. 400-414

drawbacks come from the fact that there is less of a pooling effect in the new organization than in the original one. The …

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Comments on Some Axioms for Combining Expert Judgments

Schervish, Mark J. - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 3, pp. 306-312

Morris (Morris, P. A. 1983. An axiomatic approach to expert resolution. Management Sci. 29 24--32.) develops an axiom system for combining expert judgments by means of a processing rule. It is shown that the axioms are self-contradictory.

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