Title
Coordination in decentralized assembly systems with uncertain component yields
Abstract
The literature on assembly systems with random component yields has focused on centralized systems, where a single decision maker chooses all components’ production quantities and incurs all the costs. We consider a decentralized setting where the component suppliers choose their production quantities based solely on their own cost/reward structure, and the assembly firm makes ordering decisions based on its own cost/reward structure. When the suppliers control their inputs but the outputs exhibit random yields, coordination in such systems becomes quite complex. In such situations, incentive alignment control mechanisms are needed so that the suppliers will choose production quantities as in the centralized system case. One such mechanism is to penalize the supplier with the worse delivery performance. We analyze the conditions under which system coordination is achieved while respecting participation constraints. Further, we determine the optimal component ordering policy for the assembly firm and derive the optimal coordinating penalties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.ejor.2005.09.036
European Journal of Operational Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Inventory,Game theory,Supply chain coordination
Mathematical optimization,Decentralised system,Delivery Performance,Incentive,Economic order quantity,Operations research,Input/output,Participation constraint,Game theory,Operations management,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
176
3
0377-2217
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
52
7.43
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haresh Gurnani117416.90
Yigal Gerchak246193.53