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2017

Supply chain management

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Emerging Research Institutions' Technology Transfer Supply Chain Networks' Sustainability: Budget Resource Planning Tool Development, Clovia Hamilton Nov 2017

Emerging Research Institutions' Technology Transfer Supply Chain Networks' Sustainability: Budget Resource Planning Tool Development, Clovia Hamilton

Clovia Hamilton

Emerging Research lnstitutions (ERls) can benefit from patent licensing revenues from the transfer f patented technologies into the commercial marketplace because th se added revenues can help research institutions become more sustainable financially. However, many ERls struggle to succeed in technology transfer. This study describes the development of a university technolo􀁱y transfer supply chain network sustainability tool that private and pu􀁲lic ERls can use to become more self-reliant financially. Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are ERls and are used as a case study. HBCUs lag behind their peer non-HBCUs because historically they have been under-served and were originally established …

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A Supply Chain Coordination Mechanism For Common Items Subject To Failure In The Electronics, Defense, And Medical Industries, Mikhail M. Sher, Seung-Lae Kim, Avijit Banerjee, Michael Paz May 2017

A Supply Chain Coordination Mechanism For Common Items Subject To Failure In The Electronics, Defense, And Medical Industries, Mikhail M. Sher, Seung-Lae Kim, Avijit Banerjee, Michael Paz

Michael Paz

Improved production processes, particularly miniaturization, have led to the development and use of non-reworkable items subject to failure in modern production environments. Coordinating supply chains for these items requires cooperation between suppliers and buyers in order to balance ordering/setup and holding costs among system partners. In this paper, we first determine optimal inventory policies for both the supplier and buyer. We then apply the bisection method to develop a mechanism which uses a common replenishment time to coordinate a supply chain consisting of a single supplier and n buyers. By utilizing this optimization framework, we minimize total system-wide costs and …

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