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Sales and operations planning

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Optimizing Sales Forecasting, Inventory, Pricing and Sourcing Decisions

Yara Kayyali El Alem

In this thesis we address various factors that contribute both theoretically and practically to mitigating supply demand mismatches. The thesis is composed of three chapters, where each chapter is an independent scientific paper. In the first paper, we dev ...

EPFL2023

Planning Supply with 'Opportunity Goods' : Complementing Premium Parts with Select Discount Components

Thomas Alois Weber

In this paper, we introduce the notion of an "opportunity good" as a discount production input that may prove of satisfactory quality upon inspection and otherwise can be returned to the supplier. While in a quality-sensitive setting it is never optimal to ...

2020

A test of inventory models with permissible delay in payment

Ralf Seifert, Olov Isaksson

Contrary to the long-standing view in the finance literature that firms should maximise payment delays, research in operations management suggests that long payment delays can be suboptimal. In this study, we reconcile these two views by applying a seconda ...

2017

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

Operational Decisions and Supply Chain Dynamics : An Empirical Investigation

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

Collaborative working capital management in supply networks

Supply chain management is widely accepted as a means for companies to gain competitive advantage. While product and information flows have been widely covered in the literature, relatively little attention has been paid to the management of a supply chain ...

EPFL2010

Modeling and implementing strategies for supply chain alignment

Optimal supply chain design depends on the business context the chain caters for. In this dissertation, we are concerned with attaining and maintaining this alignment between a firm's supply chain portfolio and its business context. Following an introducti ...

EPFL2008

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