Lateral transshipments within an inventory system are stock movements between locations
of the same echelon. These transshipments can be conducted periodically at predetermined …

The main objective when managing inventories in blood supply chains is to establish an
efficient balance between the wastage and shortage of blood units. The uncertain demand …

In this paper, we study the empty container inventory sharing and coordination problem in
intermodal transport. We focus on dry ports in intermodal transport to raise the coordination …

Lateral transshipment is an efficient policy designed to improve the performance of a supply
chain. Despite the importance of transshipment for perishable items, few studies consider …

Supply chain coordination through contracts has been a burgeoning area of re-search in
recent years. In spite of rapid development of research, there are only a few structured …

We examine transshipment incentives in a decentralized supply chain where a monopolist
distributes a product through independent retailers. A key insight is that the transshipment …

Learning-by-doing is a prevailing phenomenon in which a firm's production cost decreases
in its production quantity. We build a two-period model to investigate the coopetition effect of …

Mismatch between supply and demand when the uncertainty of the demand is high and the
supply lead time is relatively long, such as seasonal good markets, can result in high …

A decentralized system of competing retailers that order and sell the same product in a sales
season is studied. When a customer demand occurs at a stocked-out retailer, that retailer …

Demand and capacity sharing (DCS) among entities within a supply network are common
practice, and have become attractive strategies for competing and non-competing supply …