We incorporate information flow between a supplier and a retailer in a two-echelon model that captures the capacitated setting of a typical supply chain. We consider three situations: (1) a traditional model where there is no information to the supplier prior to a demand to him except for past...

We consider a stochastic, capacitated production-inventory model in which the customer provides information about the expected timing of future orders to the supplier. We allow for randomness in customer order arrivals as well as the quantity demanded, but work under the assumption that the...

For a decentralized supply chain with one supplier and two retailers that face uniformly distributed end-customer demands, a scheduled balanced ordering policy (SBOP) is one in which the two retailers take turns to order freely in one period of a two-period cycle, and receive a fixed shipment in...

Many organizations have only recently recognized that sharing information with other members in their supply chain can lead to signficant reduction in the total costs.Usually these information flows are incorporated into existing operating policies at the various parties.In this paper we argue...