Firms mitigate uncertainty in demand and supply by carrying safety stock, planning for excess capacity and diversifying supply sources. In this study, we provide a framework to jointly optimize these three levers in a periodic review infinite horizon setting, and in particular we examine how one...

Manufacturers that utilize capacitated flexible resources to produce a variety of products are often exposed to large mismatches between supply and demand due to some irregularities in their demand patterns. These irregularities arise from (1) uncertainty about the number of orders received from...

From special issue: "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies." This essay puts forward "capacity" as a methodological tool for transgender studies by articulating the ways in which previously unacknowledged accounts of gender's multiplicity and mutability...