Cross-docking is increasingly used to reduce inventory holding and the time products spend in the supply chain. It is especially suitable for fresh produce distribution with a short shelf-life. This research studies cross docking operations to ensure food can be delivered just in time and with...

Pattern recognition applied to control charts centers around the development and assessment of automated algorithms for detecting non‐random or unnatural patterns in observations collected from a production process. The work presented here marks the first examination of enhancements to an...

The use of information technology (IT) in the logistics area is growing all over the world and so is the number of third party logistics providers. In this article a specific case of interrelation between the uses of IT at the third party logistics service providers (3PLs) in Singapore is...

A firm can merge with one of n potential partners. The owner of each firm has private information about both his firm's stand-alone value and a component of the synergies that would be realized by the merger involving his firm. We characterize incentive-efficient mechanisms in two cases. First,...