We model a single-supplier, 73-store supply chain as a dynamic discrete choice problem. We estimate the model with transaction-level data, spanning 3,251 products and 1,370 days. We find two interrelated phenomena: the bullwhip effect and ration gaming. To establish the bullwhip effect, we show...

When an unreliable supplier serves multiple retailers, the retailers may compete with each other by inflating their order quantities in order to obtain their desired allocation from the supplier, a behavior known as the rationing game. We introduce capacity information sharing and a capacity...

The paper is focused on the complexity of household recycling waste management (HRWM). In particular, municipal solid waste (MSW) is presently and has been an environmental issue and previous studies reluctantly to converge the essential aspect of reverse logistics (situational factors) as well...

We study a two echelon supply chain with AR(1) demand and unit replenishment lead-times. Each echelon of the supply chain uses conditional expectation to generate MMSE forecasts. Both echelons use these forecasts inside the quot;Order-Up-Toquot; policy to generate replenishment orders. We...