In this paper, we review the contributions to date for analyzing the newsvendor problem. Our
focus is on examining the specific extensions for analyzing this problem in the context of …

The share of gross domestic product from the service industry reflects the competitiveness of
a nation; the service industry in the USA accounts for around 80% of its gross domestic …

Nowadays, considering the growing tendency of companies toward e-commerce as well as
green production, disruption management in such chains requires more consideration from …

Motivated by the wide utilization of cold-chain service outsourcing, this paper examines the
effect of outsourcing mode on decisions and profits by developing game-theoretic models for …

Exploring the tension between theory and practice regarding complexity and performance in
contract design is especially relevant. The goal of this paper is to understand why simpler …

Abstract Online Freight Platforms (OFPs) are emerging and developing rapidly based on the
Internet of Things and big data technologies. They provide professional logistics services by …

Fixed costs of ordering items or setting up a production process arise in many real‐life
scenarios. In their presence, the most widely used ordering policy in the stochastic inventory …

A manufacturer must choose whether to delegate component procurement to her tier 1
supplier or control it directly. Because of information asymmetry about suppliers' production …

We consider a two node supply chain with a rational manufacturer–retailer pair, in which the
retailer has private information that affects the nodes׳ reservation levels. Quantity discounts …

This paper examines the environmental impact of potential coordination on supply chains. A
decentralized two-node supply chain is studied, in which one node is a buyer ordering from …