Improving Supply Chain Performance by Imposing Simple Restrictions and Using Information

• Main Authors: Zhu, Wanshan, Gavirneni, Srinagesh, Kapuscinski, Roman
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Management Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/612; https://doi.org/10.1080/07408170903394314
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We study a two-stage serial supply chain in which a retailer and his supplier are op- erating in a make-to-stock environment and the retailer faces uncertain demands from the end customers. When this supply chain is centrally managed, we show that the optimal policy is an extension of the classic Cl...