We study a firm's optimal transshipment problem considering the impacts of setup costs for transshipment and demand distribution shapes. We assume that the demand follows a three-point distribution, which changes from a degenerate distribution, to a unimodal distribution, and to a bimodal...

We study a firm's sourcing strategy when facing two unreliable suppliers and a price-dependent isoelastic demand. At optimality, the firm always orders at least from the low-cost supplier. The firm also orders from the high-cost supplier if and only if the effective purchase cost from the...

We consider a firm's sourcing problem from one reliable supplier and one unreliable supplier in two price setting scenarios. In the committed pricing scenario, the firm makes the pricing decision before the supply uncertainty is resolved. In the responsive pricing scenario, the firm's pricing...