As products become service platforms, customers purchase both products and their associated services. Service attributes affect product choices, and product choices affect to service demand and profit during the products life cycle. Enterprises offering such product service systems (PSS) must co-design products and services to maximize overall profit. This paper proposes an Enterprise-driven Pr...

OBJECTIVES This study explored the relationship between product trials and consumer demand for alternative nicotine products (ANP). METHODS An experimental auction was conducted with 258 adult smokers, wherein participants were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions. The participants received the opportunity to try, but did not have to accept, one of three relatively novel S...

In this paper, we exploit new sources of data to estimate a detailed product-level demand system for new passenger vehicles. We use three data sources: on products, on the U.S. population of households and on the match between households and product choices. We show that the householdchoice data solves some, but not all, of the traditional problems in estimating di erentiated products demand sy...

In this paper, a bi-level game-theoretic model is proposed to investigate the effects of governmental financial intervention on green supply chain. This problem is formulated as a bi-level program for a green supply chain that produces various products with different environmental pollution levels. The problem is also regard uncertainties in market demand and sale price of raw materials and pro...

Here, we consider single vendor-buyer model with multi-product and multi-customer and multi-facility location-production-distribution problem. It is assumed that the players of the supply chain are coordinated by sharing information. Vendor manufactures produce different products at different plants with limited capacities and then distribute the products to the consumers according to determini...

We formulate a structural econometric model to analyze the impact of service attributes (warranty length, after-sales service quality) on consumer demand in the U.S.automobile industry. Our results indicate that service attributes play a compensatory role with respect to product quality, i.e., the impact of warranty length and service quality on demand increases when product quality decreases. ...

Demand estimation is important for new-product strategies, but is challenging in the absence of actual sales data. We develop a cost-effective method to estimate the demand of new products based on choice experiments. Our premise is that there exists a structural relationship between manifested demand and the probability of consumer choice being realized. We illustrate the mechanism using a the...