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Publikováno v:
Operations Research. 70:3054-3075
A buyer seeking to outsource production may be able to and ways to reduce a potential supplier's cost, e.g., by suggesting improvements to the supplier's proposed production methods. We study how a buyer could use such \cost-reduction investigations"
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Economic Science Association
We report the results of a novel protocol for running online experiments using a combination of an online experimental platform in parallel with web-conferencing software in two formats—with and without subject webcams—to improve subjects’ atte
Publikováno v:
Production and Operations Management. 30:902-920
Publikováno v:
Management Science. 65:71-89
We investigate procurement in a setting in which the buyer is bound by sourcing rules. Sourcing rules may limit the minimum and maximum amounts of business that can be awarded to a single supplier or dictate the minimum number of suppliers who are aw
Publikováno v:
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 20:232-248
We investigate when a buyer seeking to procure multiple units of an input may find it advantageous to run a “test auction” in which she has incumbent suppliers bid on a portion of the desired units. The test auction reveals incumbent supplier cos
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Problem definition : This paper studies the role of seekers’ problem specification in crowdsourcing contests for design problems. Academic/practical relevance : Platforms hosting design contests offer detailed guidance for seekers to specify their
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
1. Problem definition: This paper studies how teams make operational decisions in two canonical settings: standalone Newsvendor inventory decisions (tactical decision-making) and Newsvendor under information sharing (strategic decision-making). 2. Ac
Publikováno v:
Management Science
To stay abreast of current supply-market pricing, it is common for procurement managers to frequently organize auctions among a pool of qualified suppliers (the supply base). Sole awards can alienate losing suppliers and cause them to defect from the
Autor:
Damian R. Beil, Zhixi Wan
Publikováno v:
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 16:300-314
We study a buyer who periodically auctions off short-term supply contracts among her supply base. To mitigate significant cost shocks to procurement, the buyer can diversify her supply base by selecting suppliers from different regions. We find that
Publikováno v:
Management Science. 59:2332-2342
This paper studies an optimal procurement mechanism for a newsvendor-like problem where the buyer's (newsvendor's) purchase price of the supplies is not fixed, but determined through interaction with candidate suppliers. The buyer has priors on the s