This paper studies the setting in which a one-of-a-kind production (OKP) firm offers two types of orders (due-date guaranteed and due-date unguaranteed) at different prices to the sequentially arriving customers, who are also OKP production firms. The prices for two types of orders are quoted to...

We study the pricing problem for a third-party-logistics (3PL) provider that provides warehousing and transportation services. When customers arrive at the 3PL provider, they specify the delivery dates for their freight, and before the specified delivery dates, their freight is stocked in the...

Even though research in flow shop production scheduling has been carried out for many decades, there is still a gap between research and application — especially in manufacturing paradigms such as one-of- a-kind production (OKP) that intensely challenges real time adaptive production...

We study a two-echelon supply chain network consisting of manufacturers and retailers facing customers that differ in their price- and time-sensitivity. We examine how many price/lead time options should be provided by manufacturers and retailers under decentralized and centralized supply chain...