The bullwhip effect, also known as demand information amplification, is one of the principal
obstacles in supply chains. In recent decades, extensive studies have explored its …

Purpose The success of a supply chain is highly reliant on effective inventory and ordering
decisions. This paper systematically reviews and analyzes the literature on inventory …

Various operational strategies for mitigating supply chain disruption have been studied
theoretically, but few studies have investigated behavioral decision-making in multi-echelon …

In this article, I provide a brief introduction to the use of experiments in purchasing and
supply management research. Different types of experiments common within the field are …

The growing number of large-scale relief operations and humanitarian aid initiatives is
stretching the resources–financial, material and human–of humanitarian actors to their limits …

Uncertainty on the supply side is a common issue planners face. How do decision‐makers
incorporate inventory uncertainty when placing orders? We investigate ordering decisions …

Despite advances in retail point-of-sale (POS) data sharing, retailers' suppliers struggle to
effectively use POS data to improve their fulfillment planning processes. The challenge lies …

Trade credit finance (TCF), retailer independent finance (RIF), and partial credit guarantee
(PCG) finance are all important financing tools for capital‐constrained retailers. Risk …

We investigate inventory ordering decisions when decision makers anticipated a demand
shock. Decision makers anticipating an event have been shown to brace for an uncertain …

This paper investigates the impact of retail promotions on inventory decisions in a multi-
period ordering setting. A laboratory experiment was designed to examine how awareness …