Multi-Echelon Inventory Conference
(click here for the MSOM Conference schedule)

The Multi-Echelon Inventory Conference is a one-day conference bringing together practitioners and researchers interested in multi and single-stage production-inventory operations, supply chain management, and logistics.

Event: Multi-Echelon Conference
Date: June 26, 2005

Location: James Allen Center
  2169 Campus Drive
  Northwestern U
  Evanston, IL

Schedule:
Each speaker will have 35 minutes. The discussant is allowed 5 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of general discussion.

Registration begins at 7:30am

Session One
8:30am

Markus Ettl

A Two-Stage Push-Pull Production Planning Model

Discussant: Ana Muriel
9:15am

Terry Taylor, Columbia U

Partnership in a Dynamic Production System

Discussant: Greys Sosic, USC
Session Two
10:30am

Krishnan Arnand, Wharton

The Strategic Perils of Delayed Differentiation

Discussant: Marty Lariviere, NU
11:15am

Ananth Iyer, Purdue

An Approach to Identifying Beneficial Collaboration Securely in Decentralized Logistics Systems
Discussant: Karen Smilowitz, NU

Session Three

1:30pm

Karen Donohue

Order Stability in Supply Chains: Coordination Risk and the Role of Coordination Stock
Discussant: Rodney Parker, Yale
2:15pm

Owen Wu

What Actually Happened to the Inventories of American Companies Between 1981 and 2000?
Discussant: Gerard Cachon, Wharton

Session Four

3:30pm

Rachel Zhang, Cornell

How Much Demand Should Be Fulfilled?
Discussant: Larry Snyder
4:15pm

Kevin Shang, Duke

A Simple Heuristic for Serial Inventory Systems with Fixed Order Costs

Discussant: Diego Klabjan, UIUC

 

 
 
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