Online retailers utilize lateral transshipment to meet the immediate shortage of demand at one location from surplus at another location within their retailing network. One option to reduce such potentially expensive transshipment is to hold additional safety stock at each location. We...

We study an optimal matching problem in the context of dual-donor organ exchange, where a portion of two living donors' organs are transplanted to a single patient. This dual-donor transplant technique is becoming more widespread for lung and liver transplants. However, multiple medical...

We investigate the U.S. Coin Supply Chain (USCSC) from the perspectives of the Depository Institutions (DIs) within the context of improving efficiency of coin circulation in the economy. The USCSC consists of the supply side members (Mint, Federal Reserve System) and the demand side members...