Increasing global competition has evolved a manufacturing environment which gleans vast product variety, reduced manufacturing lead times, increased quality standards and competitive costs. Simultaneously, with a rising trend toward globalization, these manufacturing environments must be...

In this work a two echelon merge supply chain is examined. Specifically, two non identical reliable suppliers feed a distribution centre with a shared buffer. The first echelon consists of the distribution centre and the shared buffer, the second echelon includes two non identical reliable...

This paper discusses the design of a performance evaluation system in a decentralized firm when subunits are organized as cost centers and lead time has an important effect on demand or cost. The model incorporates agency costs associated with managers' efforts and overhead absorption and...