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Supply Chain Disruption Risk Management

It is well established that firms are exposed to the risk of supply chain disruptions. Many firms build risk mitigation strategies in order to increase the resilience of their supply chains. In this dissertation we present three essays that study operation ...

EPFL2016

Satisficing measure approach for vehicle routing problem with time windows under uncertainty

Jingjing Jiang

The complexity of evaluating chance constraints makes chance-constrained programming problem difficult to solve. One way to handle this complexity is by devising satisficing measures for the relevant uncertainties. This paper focuses on solving the stochas ...

2016

Carbon footprint and responsiveness trade-offs in supply chain network design

Ralf Seifert, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez, Joana Maria Comas Marti

Concern related to sustainability and greenhouse gases has grown among citizens as well as firms, which are increasingly committing to carbon emission reduction targets. However, firms' emissions come from direct and indirect sources, and from the differen ...

2015

Inventory Leanness and the Financial Performance of the Firm

Ralf Seifert, Olov Isaksson

This paper examines the financial consequences that inventory leanness has on firm performance. We conduct an econometric analysis using 4324 publicly traded US manufacturing companies for the period 1980-2008. Using an instrumental variable fixed effects ...

2014

The Effect of Coercive Power on Supply Chain Inventory Replenishment Decisions

Rémy Glardon

Supply chains often consist of stakeholders with different power levels collaborating with each other in order to meet customer demand. This im-balance of power along the supply chain is a critical factor that affects its short and long-term behavior, as w ...

Bernard Grabot, Bruno Vallespir, Samuel Gomes, Abdelaziz Bouras, Dinitris Kiritsis2014

Joint product assortment, inventory and price optimization to attract loyal and non-loyal customers

Ralf Seifert, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez, Argyro Katsifou

In this paper, we analyze the emerging retail practice of carrying a combined product assortment consisting of both regular "standard" products and more fashionable and short-lived "special" products. The purpose of this practice is to increase store traff ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2014

On the role of trust types and levels on inventory replenishment decision

Rémy Glardon, Amin Kaboli, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Maryam Darvish

Using a participatory simulation platform, this paper investigates the inventory replenishment decisions made under different trust categories. Depending on the type of trust (trust in supplier versus trust in customer) and level of trust (high versus low) ...

2014

Operational Decisions and Supply Chain Dynamics

Olov Isaksson

While traditional research in operations management has focused on mathematical models for improving the flow of physical goods and information, this dissertation takes a quantitative empirical approach. With three distinct research projects it revisits ce ...

EPFL2013

Trust and Inventory Replenishment Decision Under Continuous Review System

Amin Kaboli

This thesis examines the impact of inventory manager’ trust on their replenishment decision. We conduct this study in the experimental environment and design an experiment with unknown market demand, local information, and under continuous replenishment re ...

EPFL2013

Inventory Management with Working Capital Restrictions

Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

Working capital restrictions can have disruptive effects on the coordination of the operations and finances of a company. Working capital restrictions may limit the inventory ordering power, reduce revenues, and increase the use of high premium debt. It ma ...

EPFL2013

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