This paper explores the differences between demand and supply uncertainty in multi-echelon supply chains. Our central premise is that the insights gained from the study of one type of uncertainty often do not apply to the other. In fact, the two types of uncertainty are in a sense mirror images of each other, in that the optimal strategy for coping with supply uncertainty may be exactly opposit...

This study attempts to optimize a delivery service strategy for Internet shopping by considering timedependent consumer demand, demand–supply interaction and consumer socioeconomic characteristics. A nonlinear mathematical programming model is formulated for solving the optimal number and duration of service cycles for discriminating strategy by maximizing profit subject to demand–supply intera...

An allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study is developed to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labour demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of supply and demand shifts on the allocation structure to disentangle country specific differences in the recruitment fo...

An important observation in supply chain management, known as the bullwhip eeect, suggests that demand variability increases as one moves up a supply chain. In this paper we quantify this eeect for simple, two-stage, supply chains consisting of a single retailer and a single manufacturer. Our model includes two of the factors commonly assumed to cause the bullwhip eeect: demand forecasting and ...

Decision-making needs information. Enterprises in a supply chain make daily operating decisions on the basis of available information of demand and supply. The behaviors of supply chain members would be different under information sharing than otherwise. Demand-side information sharing has been intensively explored. However, supply-side information sharing has not been extensively investigated....

Facing the complex and changeful market environment, members of the enterprise in supply and demand network more consider seeking to build partnerships, with a specialization in a larger scope; effectively reduce all kinds of business cost of the enterprise, fully realized system scale effect. First discussed the basic characteristics of the network of supply and demand and enterprise, using th...

Abstract Solar mini-grids are a key element in strategies to achieve universal access modern energy by 2030. In many settings offer combination of affordability, reliability, and capacity for productive use power, moreso than most solar home systems some central grids. Yet the economic sustainability relies on achieving target usage levels, consumption data date suggest that they may be commerc...

Uncertain demand is one of the most important uncertainties in supply chain management. Different from the traditional methods, such as dynamic inventory control, estimation of demand, we propose to apply postponement strategy to treat uncertain demand in the process of distribution in supply chain. Postponement has been appreciated in recent decades, mainly in manufacturing period of realizing...

Much of the burgeoning distress of the 1990s in the United States retail space markets reflects a mismatch in the amount and location of retail space demand and supply. Understanding the demand and supply for retail space is critically important to academics, professionals and others associated with owning, operating and financing retail space. Using data from nineteen major metropolitan statis...