Ralf Seifert

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Inventory Leanness and the Financial Performance of the Firm

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

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

Ralf Seifert, Argyro Katsifou, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez

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

Trade Credit: Literature Review and Research Directions

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa, Daniel Seifert

Trade credit arises when a buyer delays payment for purchased goods or services. Its nature has predominantly been an area of inquiry for researchers from the disciplines of finance, marketing, and economics but it has received relatively little attention ...

Elsevier2013

Lego: Consolidating Distribution (Abridged)

Ralf Seifert

2013

Financial Supply Chain Management: Working Capital Requirements with Short-term Debt

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa, Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

In this paper, we build on a single product, finite horizon, periodic review inventory management setting and include key financial aspects such as working capital constraints, payment delays and multiple sources of financing. We numerically solve for the ...

2013

Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Supply Chain Environmental Strategies

Ralf Seifert, Joana Maria Comas Marti

As environmental awareness grows, firms are expected to expand the scope of their environmental strategies beyond organisational boundaries and to address more comprehensively environmental issues in their supply chains and product life cycles. Drawing on ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

The Perks and Pitfalls of Knowledge Diffusion in the Supply Chain

Ralf Seifert, Olov Isaksson

2013

A three-echelon supply chain with price-only contracts and sub-supply chain coordination

Ralf Seifert, Shuangqing Liao

This paper studies coordination in a three-echelon supply chain and examines the impact of sub-supply chain coordination (sub-coordination). Our analysis is based on the price-only contracts that are commonly used in practice. The model is of the newsvendo ...

2012

Benefits and Scepticism of Ecolabels as Accountability Mechanism

Ralf Seifert, Joana Maria Comas Marti

Environmental labelling is an accountability mechanism for firms to satisfy growing demands to prove that value chains are sustainably managed. Although the large variety of ecolabels available today can be interpreted as a sign of their success, it is ove ...

Emerald2012

Designing Service Level Contracts for Supply Chain Coordination

Ralf Seifert

Supply contracts are used to coordinate the activities of the supply chain partners. In many industries, service level-based supply contracts are commonly used. Under such a contract, a company agrees to achieve a certain service level and to pay a financi ...

2012

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