Date: 9 November 2018, Friday
Time: 13:40-14:40
Place: Faculty of Business Administration,
Ümit Berkman Seminar Room (MA-330)
“Optimal Assortment Planning for Firms Using Transshipments” by
Nagihan Comez Dolgan
Istanbul Sehir University
Abstract:
Transshipments may help firms to satisfy customer demand timely and at a lower cost then receiving emergency shipments from upper echelon supplier in case of stock unavailability. While the effects of considering transshipments along with inventory decisions are extensively investigated, transshipments may also affect more strategic level decisions such as assortment planning. In this study, our objective is to find the optimal assortments in a centralized system, where firms can utilize transshipments for the products they don’t keep. We use an exogenous demand model and consider the settings where an assortment capacity constraint at each firm is present or not. If a product is not carried by any of the firms, then it is considered that a customer can be willing to substitute his/her demand with another product, which can be either directly satisfied from the firms’s inventory or by transshipment. We shed light on optimal firm assortments when transshipments are utilized.
Nagihan ÇÖMEZ DOLGAN – ISTANBUL SEHIR UNIVERSITY
Nagihan Çömez Dolgan completed her B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering at Bogazici University. She received an M.S. degree in Supply Chain Management in 2005 and a Ph.D. degree in Management Science in 2007 from The University of Texas at Dallas. Between 2007 and 2014 she worked as a faculty member at Bilkent University Faculty of Business Administration. Her research work focuses mainly within the supply chain coordination framework. Within this framework, particularly she has been working on inventory transshipment policies, joint inventory-pricing decisions, inventory planning coordination in mergers, and rent contract policies between co-stores. She is offering courses on operations management, supply chain management, management science, business consulting models, and statistics in undergraduate and graduate levels.