Demand Visibility and Capacity Pooling With Temporal Commitments

Boada-Collado, Pol; Chopra, Sunil; Smilowitz, Karen

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3452915

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“…As shown in Boada‐Collado et al. (2020), the value of information from this improved demand visibility is particularly helpful when the supply chain has access to flexible capacity. This is again a situation where the availability of an information commons that helps firms improve forecasting at low cost, and a flexible capacity commons that helps firms react to the updated forecast, can help these firms simultaneously improve their efficiency and resilience.…”

Section: Commons and Strategies For Resilience At Low Costmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Boada‐Collado et al. (2020) discuss models linking the value of partial information to the availability of flexible capacity under short‐term commitment contracts for capacity. Using a newsvendor network model, they find that demand visibility and flexible capacity can be either substitutes or complements, depending on the cost of flexible capacity.…”

Section: Commons and Strategies For Resilience At Low Costmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Achieving supply chain efficiency and resilience by using multi‐level commons

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We offer the notion of “commons” at different levels—within company, private across company, and government‐sponsored across‐industry sectors—and discuss how the creation of such commons enabled firms to be both efficient during normal times and resilient against the disruptions resulting from COVID‐19. At the same time, there are many proven strategies providing resilience in supply chains. For instance, companies that used multiple channels to improve efficiency when facing day‐to‐day demand‐and‐supply variations found that the structure also offered resilience without additional cost when COVID struck. We discuss how the presence of commons lowers the cost for firms to adopt such resilience‐building supply chain strategies. We discuss factors that impact the creation of these commons and conclude with a number of questions to guide further research into the role of industry commons in facilitating supply chain resilience.

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Section: Commons and Strategies For Resilience At Low Costmentioning

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Section: Commons and Strategies For Resilience At Low Costmentioning

confidence: 99%

Achieving supply chain efficiency and resilience by using multi‐level commons

2021

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“…In recent years, firms have invested in advanced technologies such as AI or big data to improve demand forecasting. As shown in (Boada-Collado et al 2020), the value of information from this improved demand visibility is particularly helpful when the supply chain has access to flexible capacity. This is again a situation where the availability of an information commons that helps firms improve forecasting at low cost, and a flexible capacity commons that helps firms react to the updated forecast, can help these firms simultaneously improve their efficiency and resilience.…”

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confidence: 99%