This study considers a two-mode production system that allows the supply chain to utilize a fast reactive production with improved demand information before the selling season. However, the reactive production quantity is limited by the required preprocessing decision before the demand...

Two field case studies uncover what we call the bilateral information discounting behavior, wherein one party misrepresents and inflates its requirements and the other party in the relationship discounts it and reciprocates with smaller or slower responses. In supply chains, this behavior...