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A digital twin framework integrated with a mixed proactive-reactive model for human milk supply chain planning 一个集成了混合主动-反应模型的数字孪生框架，用于母乳供应链规划

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109683

Seyyed-Mahdi Hosseini-Motlagh , Mohammad Reza Ghatreh Samani , Milad Rahmani

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How customer digital orientation drives supplier green and low-carbon efforts: The roles of supplier dependence and common ownership 客户数字化导向如何推动供应商的绿色低碳努力：供应商依赖和共同所有权的作用

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109680

Yiran Chen , Shaopeng Cao

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Agency selling or reselling? Differentiated medication pricing in a healthcare platform with consultation 代理销售还是转售？基于会诊的医疗平台差异化药品定价研究

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109639

Shaofu Du , Hengjia Bao , Tengfei Nie

{"title":"Agency selling or reselling? Differentiated medication pricing in a healthcare platform with consultation","authors":"Shaofu Du , Hengjia Bao , Tengfei Nie","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109639","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109639","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid evolution of Internet healthcare has enabled online healthcare platforms to enter the healthcare market, where they typically operate under two predominant agreements: agency selling agreements and reselling agreements. Considering the diverse patient demands for medications of varying quality, these platforms strategically introduce medication suppliers with differentiated quality levels to enhance market coverage. This study examines how an online healthcare platform influences patients’ medication choices through a consultation fee and differentiated medication prices under two agreements within a game-theoretic model. Our findings indicate that when the quality differentiation between medications is small, the strategy for introducing medication suppliers varies significantly across different agreements. Moreover, the healthcare platform is more likely to adopt an agency selling agreement and introduce a high-quality supplier when the commission rate and cost of medications are both relatively high, which can result in an increased patient surplus. Surprisingly, we demonstrate that a greater differentiation in medication quality does not always benefit the platform when introducing a high-quality supplier. The study provides strategic insights into how a healthcare platform can effectively balance and enhance both its profitability and patient surplus through careful management of medication quality differentiation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"286 ","pages":"Article 109639"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144134599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Retailers’ parallel importation and service provision in a supply chain: Incentives and impacts 供应链中零售商平行进口与服务提供：激励与影响

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109678

Hai Li , Jing Shao , Stuart X. Zhu , Xiaoliu Xiang

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Can FICO scores be used to explain managerial decision making?: Evidence from a supply-chain resilience experiment FICO分数可以用来解释管理决策吗？：来自供应链弹性实验的证据

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109675

Yiseon Choi , Noah Dormady

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A supervised learning-based optimization for container pre-loading problem 基于监督学习的集装箱预装问题优化

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109648

Woo-sung Kim , Mihyeong Song , Mincheol Jeong , Seung Hwan Jung

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A sustainable supply chain finance ecosystem: A review and conceptual framework 可持续的供应链金融生态系统：回顾与概念框架

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109676

Ziling Liao , Lorenzo Bruno Prataviera , Abhijeet Ghadge , Ismail Abushaikha

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Why do manufacturers launch virtual NFT products? The role of aspirational inventory levels 制造商为什么要推出虚拟NFT产品？期望库存水平的作用

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109673

Wenqian Zhu, Di Fan, Shuhan Wang

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Comparative analysis of crowdfunding and bank financing: The effect of market uncertainty 众筹与银行融资的比较分析：市场不确定性的影响

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109657

Mingzhao Tang , Tian-Hui You , Bing-Bing Cao

{"title":"Comparative analysis of crowdfunding and bank financing: The effect of market uncertainty","authors":"Mingzhao Tang , Tian-Hui You , Bing-Bing Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109657","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109657","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Faced with financial dilemmas, firms have long relied on bank financing as a prevalent and trusted solution. Recently, however, crowdfunding has emerged as an innovative alternative, enabling capital-constrained firms to raise funds from diverse investors. This study explores the optimal financing strategy for such firms under market uncertainty and evaluates pricing decisions across different financing strategies, including bank financing and crowdfunding. Our results reveal that under crowdfunding, market uncertainty may lead to either overfunding or underfunding, which in turn necessitates different pricing strategies. Crowdfunding is not entirely barrier-free for firms, as its accessibility often hinges on setup costs. In contrast, under bank financing, market uncertainty may hinder firms from generating enough revenue to cover the principal and interest on the bank loan, potentially leading to bankruptcy. Similarly, bank financing is also constrained by setup costs. Finally, by comparing crowdfunding and bank financing, our findings suggest that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Firms must consider dynamic factors, including platform commission, interest rate, and setup costs, when selecting the most appropriate financing strategy. This approach ensures that the choice aligns with both the market conditions and the unique situation of firms. Additionally, in the extensions, we modify the crowdfunding financing mechanism and introduce a hybrid financing strategy designed to further alleviate financing difficulties for firms. These findings provide actionable insights for firms navigating uncertain financial environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"286 ","pages":"Article 109657"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144070488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Integrated inbound and inplant logistics scheduling of containers via heterogeneous material-handling resources 通过异构物料搬运资源对集装箱进行综合入库和出厂物流调度

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109651

Priyam Bajpai , Chandrasekharan Rajendran , Renu Agarwal , Sanjoy Kumar Paul , A.S. Balakrishnan

{"title":"Integrated inbound and inplant logistics scheduling of containers via heterogeneous material-handling resources","authors":"Priyam Bajpai , Chandrasekharan Rajendran , Renu Agarwal , Sanjoy Kumar Paul , A.S. Balakrishnan","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109651","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109651","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the integrated inbound and inplant logistics in transporting containers with automobile parts from docks to designated storage locations, referred to as marketplaces, within an automobile manufacturing facility. The movement of these containers relies on Material Handling Resources (MHRs) with heterogeneous capacities. Stemming from a real-life scenario encountered in a manufacturing plant, this research represents a pioneering effort in exploring the integration of inbound and inplant logistics and thus highlights the operational intricacies of assigning docks and scheduling inbound trucks, along with the allocation and scheduling of unloaded containers via MHRs simultaneously. A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model for integrated inbound and inplant logistics is proposed to optimize the makespan for container transport from dock to marketplace. Consequently, the developed model ensures comprehensive tracking of container movement from the dock to their respective marketplaces and other characteristics not addressed before in literature. A comparative analysis between the integrated and sequential approaches is conducted to underscore the advantages of the new approach, which demonstrates that a sequential approach yields suboptimal outcomes. Additionally, an innovative technique, namely Divide-Fix, Fix-Optimize, and Overarching Generate-Optimize, is introduced. This method leverages heuristics, MILP and three adapted metaheuristics—Population-based Multi-start Simulated Annealing, Hybrid Harris Hawks Optimization, and Opposition-based Whale Optimization Algorithm—to address large-scale instances. Notably, the technique yields good solutions with an optimality gap within 3 % and exhibits a narrow confidence interval, indicating consistent and stable outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"288 ","pages":"Article 109651"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144491862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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