IIE Transactions articles

Recent articles from IIE Transactions

Transshipment between competing retailers.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction Stock-outs are endemic in the retail industry. In the supermarket industry alone, stock-outs lead to lost sales of $7-12 billion annually (Ton, 2002). "It's no small secret that retailers are still out of stock on 20% to 30% of the SKUs consumers want almost all the...

Quantity commitment, production and subcontracting with bargaining.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction The use of outsourcing to manufacture part of a product's volume or some components of a product that a firm makes has become very common in the last 20 years. In this paper we consider the case of (partial) subcontracting, where the firm is capable of in-house...

Designing supply contracts in supplier vs buyer-driven channels: the impact of leadership, contract flexibility and information asymmetry.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction In the context of supply contract design, the common wisdom is that the party holding the leadership realizes the greater profit. Traditionally, the supplier (e.g., manufacturer) has been more powerful, and. hence, the existing literature in the area emphasizes...

The multi-level lot sizing problem with flexible production sequences.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction We consider a lot sizing problem with multiple items where the objective is to determine when and how much of each item should be produced over a finite planning horizon so as to minimize the sum of production, inventory holding and setup costs. The choice of a production...

Dual-supply inventory problem with capacity limits on order sizes and unrestricted ordering costs.(Report)
August 1, 2009... 1. Introduction The impact of the financial collapse of UPF-Thompson on Land Rover (Macalister, 2002) and the effects of the Philips plant fire on Ericsson (Latour, 2001) are just two of several recent events that have shown the vulnerability of supply chains under single sourcing. In...