This dissertation explores coordination schemes that can be used to align the incentives of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and its contract manufacturer (CM). The coordination ismediated by demand forecast sharing and component overage risk sharing. Three major problems are studied:...

Wholesalers face an environment where different retail establishments may follow different ordering policies. Typically, wholesalers do not consider the individual retail establishments ordering policies when setting and computing their service levels. This research looked at whether there was a...