To gain cost advantage and market share, many firms implemented various initiatives such
as outsourced manufacturing and product variety. These initiatives are effective in a stable …

Behavioral operations research has proliferated greatly over the decade since its first formal
review in 2006. The growth of the field warrants an objective map** of contributions to the …

Small suppliers often face challenges to obtain financing for their operations. Especially in
develo** economies, traditional financing methods can be very costly or unavailable to …

Robust optimization is still a relatively new approach to optimization problems affected by
uncertainty, but it has already proved so useful in real applications that it is difficult to tackle …

Conic optimization is a significant and thriving research area within the optimization
community. Conic optimization is the general class of problems concerned with optimizing a …

While the beneficial impacts of supplier and customer integration are generally
acknowledged, very few empirical research studies have examined how an organization …

Previous studies on the impact of customer concentration on firm-level outcomes mainly
focus on financial and operational variables, and the influence of a concentrated customer …

Demand forecasts play a crucial role for supply chain management. The future demand for a
certain product is the basis for the respective replenishment systems. Several forecasting …

The bullwhip effect is the amplification of demand variability along a supply chain: a
company bullwhips if it purchases from suppliers more variably than it sells to customers …

The bullwhip effect is the phenomenon of increasing demand variability in the supply chain
from downstream echelons (retail) to upstream echelons (manufacturing). The objective of …