The better utilization of production resources has been a concern in the automotive industry over decades. Though costly itself, increasing process flexibility across the entire production network is seen as a particularly efficient approach for managing the mismatch between available production...

Efficient implementation of product recovery requires appropriate network structures. In this paper, we study the network design problem of a firm that manufactures new products and remanufactures returned products in its facilities. We examine the capacity decisions and expected performance of...

Previous experimental work showed that newsvendors tend to order closer to mean demand than prescribed by the normative critical fractile solution. A recently proposed explanation for this mean ordering behavior assumes that the decision maker commits random choice errors, and predicts the mean...