Optimal procurement design of an assembly supply chain with information asymmetry

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2075-2088

  Fang, Xiang ^a   Ru, Jun ^b   Wang, Yunzeng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b 326F Jacobs Management Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

decentralized assembly systems; demand uncertainty; mechanism design; private cost information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917733820     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12199     Document Type: Article

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