Article
Management
Xianpei Hong, Yimeng He, Pin Zhou, Jiguang Chen
Summary: Contract farming is crucial for protecting small farmers from market volatility and has experienced rapid growth. However, previous studies have overlooked the sharing of demand information by for-profit companies engaged in contract farming.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Yeu-Shiang Huang, Jyh-Wen Ho, Wei-Yu Kao
Summary: Information sharing plays a crucial role in supply chain coordination and profitability. This study investigates the impact of reliability and availability on supply chain profits and proposes an integrated approach to optimize production decision-making. The results show that higher reliability and availability of information sharing can improve supply chain management performance and increase profits, but also incur higher costs, highlighting the importance of striking the right balance in determining the optimal reliability and availability of information sharing.
COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
(2022)
Article
Management
Ke Fu, Ce Wang, Jiayan Xu
Summary: This study fills the research gap regarding the impact of trade credit on information sharing in supply chains. The findings show that the provision of trade credit affects the retailer's information sharing decision and supply chain performance.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Roberto Dominguez, Salvatore Cannella, Borja Ponte, Jose M. Framinan
Summary: This study examines the impact of information sharing on the dynamics of supply chains in situations where some echelons do not collaborate. The findings suggest that sharing information can reduce the bullwhip effect in supply chains and significantly affect overall supply chain costs. Furthermore, downstream collaboration has a stronger influence on supply chain performance.
FLEXIBLE SERVICES AND MANUFACTURING JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Zhiming Chen, Fanglong Liu
Summary: Outsourcing is a popular production mode that benefits both OEMs and CMs. Research shows that there is a threshold outsourcing price beyond which CMs are motivated to overproduce, and in a competitive market, price war is not a wise strategy for CMs.
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Business
Frank Bodendorf, Jorg Franke
Summary: This paper focuses on the importance of two-way information sharing in supply chain management, and establishes a hybrid simulation model to measure its impact on both the entire supply chain and the individual profit of participants. The results indicate that two-way information exchange can lead to higher profits, while different actors have different preferences in information sharing.
INDUSTRIAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Management
Jian Zhang, Barrie R. Nault
Summary: This study focuses on a make-to-order (MTO) supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and its supplier. The manufacturer orders parts from the supplier upon receiving an order from a customer, and the supplier can adjust the delivery of parts to meet the manufacturer's preferences. Information sharing is essential for delivery adjustments, and a multi-stage game model is used to analyze the incentives for sharing information between the supplier and manufacturer. The findings reveal that the sharing of information depends on the distribution of the supplier's production load and the threshold for the manufacturer's decision to share information. The study also proposes a price ceiling mechanism to motivate upstream information sharing, which increases the supply chain's profit and customer welfare. Additionally, the presence of an outside option can naturally form a price ceiling. The insights from this research can be applied to supply chains with similar structures.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Selmen Boubaker, Zied Jemai, Evren Sahin, Yves Dallery
Summary: This paper proposes a quantitative approach to evaluate and improve supply chain agility and develops a model to simulate the flow of information and physical goods in different situations. A numerical study is presented and interesting insights from real-life applications are discussed.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Management
Yunjie Wang, Albert Y. Ha, Shilu Tong
Summary: This study investigates the sharing of private demand information of a manufacturer to competing retailers, providing insights on how service effort competition affects incentives for firms to share a manufacturer's demand information.
M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Yujie Zhao, Hong Zhou, Jiepeng Wang
Summary: This paper examines the value of demand information and acquisition strategy in a supply chain with supplier encroachment, using a Bayesian game model and signaling mechanism. It analyzes the impact of dual information asymmetry, the interaction between channel substitution rate and information acquisition, and the effects of subsidies and signaling on payoffs. The study reveals a double information inaccuracy effect and the positive impact of signaling on enterprises' payoffs with lower substitution rate.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Business
Dandan Gao, Nengmin Wang, Bin Jiang, Jie Gao, Zhen Yang
Summary: This study examines the impact of information sharing on supply chain performance, particularly in the context of potential product loss in e-commerce. The findings highlight the critical importance of product loss information in reducing bullwhip effects and costs, while also revealing the potential implications of different information sharing decisions in far-distance e-commerce environments.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
Benyong Hu, Lin Liu, Chao Meng
Summary: This study shows that sharing demand information between the game developer and distributor in an online game supply chain can influence marketing investment and product quality decisions. Information sharing motivates the distributor to invest more in marketing, especially when the market demand is not very sensitive to the game price, while it leads the developer to be less conservative in product quality and commit higher investments. Additionally, there is a region of Pareto improvement where both supply chain members benefit from voluntarily sharing demand information.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Management
Andrew M. Davis, Rihuan Huang, Douglas J. Thomas
Summary: This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different inventory-sharing strategies on profit distribution in a two-tier supply chain. The results show that when retailers are decentralized and the transfer price is set by the manufacturer, both retailers and the manufacturer earn higher profits compared to the centralized retailer strategy. On the other hand, when retailers are decentralized and set their own transfer price, the most equitable distribution of profits is achieved.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Zhong Zheng, Zhiyuan Chen, Sinem Kinay Savaser
Summary: The study finds that buyers will increase order quantity under EA contract, and as the number of suppliers increases, the total order quantity will also increase. Furthermore, suppliers are more likely to prefer EA contract, while buyers prefer it due to the first-move advantage.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Jingru Wang, Zhiyuan Zhen, Qiang Yan
Summary: The study focuses on strategic games of information sharing and leakage in the supply chain, emphasizing the incentives of information acquisition and sharing for incumbent retailers and the information leakage strategy of the supplier. The supplier tends to leak information to new entrants, and under the information sharing and leakage strategy, it may benefit the entire supply chain when retail competition is not intense.
RAIRO-OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Srinagesh Gavirneni, Lawrence W. Robinson
OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS
(2017)
Article
Management
Fang Liu, Srinagesh Gavirneni
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2018)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Lawrence W. Robinson, Srinagesh Gavirneni
OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS
(2019)
Article
Management
Xuchuan Yuan, Tinglong Dai, Lucy Gongtao Chen, Srinagesh Gavirneni
Summary: This study demonstrates that coopetition can facilitate resource sharing in service clusters, but also intensify price competition. It highlights the importance of a proper cost-allocation scheme for service providers to avoid lower profitability due to fairness considerations.
M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Management
Shu Zhou, Boqian Song, Srinagesh Gavirneni
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Management
Liying Mu, Bin Hu, A. Amarender Reddy, Srinagesh Gavirneni
Summary: The study focuses on the negotiation of government-to-government food importing contracts, particularly looking at ad hoc and forward multiple-sourcing negotiations for optimizing strategies between buyers and suppliers. The research finds that with an increasing number of suppliers, the optimal choice for buyers when facing a supplier pool may be to combine forward and ad hoc suppliers.
M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Christian Mandl, Selvaprabu Nadarajah, Stefan Minner, Srinagesh Gavirneni
Summary: This study proposes a forward-looking data-driven approach (DDA) for learning trading strategies in storage assets. By incorporating historical data and predicting future profits as feature functions, and enforcing the structural properties of the optimal policy, DDA improves the performance and reduces the generalization error of traditional reoptimization heuristics.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Tarikere T. Niranjan, Narendra K. Ghosalya, Srinagesh Gavirneni
Summary: The research reveals the issue of information discounting in the supply chain, leading to a decrease in trust between buyers and suppliers and resulting in suboptimal equilibrium. Eye tracking experiments uncover how decision makers consider unfinished orders, showing that improving supplier behavior alone is not sufficient - buyers must also be educated on the optimal target inventory.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Business
Omkar Palsule-Desai, Vikrant Vaze, Gang Li, Srinagesh Gavirneni
Summary: In the postpandemic world, service providers need to focus on the importance of providing essential services for all customer segments and consider popular strategies like offering no-pay services. Understanding how to balance societal and financial goals is crucial for for-profit service providers.
Article
Management
H. Muge Yayla-Kullu, Omkar D. Palsule-Desai, Srinagesh Gavirneni
Summary: This paper examines the volatility of onion prices in India and proposes a policy of introducing dehydrated onion as a solution. The findings suggest that using threshold-based policies and nonprofit management can lead to better outcomes. However, there may be unintended consequences that policymakers should be cautious about.
M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Vic Anand, Ramji Balakrishnan, Srinagesh Gavirneni
Summary: Due to limited information about resource demand, firms use heuristics to plan resource capacity. We examined the performance of five heuristics and found that a simple one, which plans rigorously for a few driver resources and uses ratios to project capacities for non-driver resources, is robust and efficient. Using multiple driver resources for the same non-driver resource delivers significant gains, and reducing measurement error for driver resource consumption dominates overall performance.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Tarikere T. Niranjan, Narendra K. Ghosalya, Raveen R. Menon, Kristian Rotaru, Srinagesh Gavirneni
Summary: We present the findings of five controlled experiments on interventions to improve decision making in the newsvendor task. The use of eye-tracking technology and interviews reveals that human decision makers tend to rely on past demand predictions, even when they are independent and identically distributed. The interventions tested reduce this reliance, but do not completely eliminate it, suggesting that judgmental forecasting persists despite the interventions.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Management
Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Abdullah Konak, Lily Jakielaszek, Nagesh Gavirneni
Summary: This study addresses the complex and multi-objective optimization problem of menu design in senior living communities using mixed integer linear programming. The results demonstrate how menu planners and chefs can improve menus' nutritional value while ensuring residents' autonomy in food choice decisions through analyzing menu structures and evaluating alternative menu interventions.
INFORMS JOURNAL ON APPLIED ANALYTICS
(2023)
Review
Management
Shailly Chaurasia, Rupesh Kumar Pati, Sidhartha S. Padhi, Jennifer M. K. Jensen, Nagesh Gavirneni
Summary: The research on the management literature of the nutraceutical industry is still in its early stages, with potential for further growth. Future studies should focus on addressing operational challenges faced by developing countries.
Article
Management
Valentina Carbone, Valerie Moatti, Tobias Schoenherr, Srinagesh Gavirneni
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION & LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
(2019)