Collaborative Research: Managing Material Flow and Cash Flow in the Supply Chain

合作研究：管理供应链中的物流和现金流

• 批准号: 0100462
• 负责人: John Birge
• 金额: $ 16.21万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0100462&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Managing; Material; Flow

The purpose of this collaborative research project is to develop new models that can help firms make their production and financial decisions simultaneously. Production decisions (e.g., when to produce and how much to produce, when to order and how much to order) and financial decisions (e.g., short term borrowing, issuing of dividends) are interrelated in a firm. This project will integrate recent results in production and inventory control with those in finance, as well as new methodologies in stochastic programming, to develop models that can help firms make their production and financial decisions simultaneously in the presence of demand uncertainty and financial constraints.In this research, models will be developed for making production and financial decisions simultaneously and study the effect of financial constraints on production decisions. This is motivated by experience working with industry. The research tasks offer the potential to integrate the state of the art in traditional production and inventory control modeling with finance. If successful, the research will provide structural results for the problems and meaningful insights for managers; and, useful tools for improvement in production and inventory planning. The decision tools will integrate material flows and financial flows and help firms make production and financial decisions simultaneously in the presence of uncertainty. The models will be demonstrated through actual use by industrial partners.

这个合作研究项目的目的是开发新的模型，帮助企业同时做出生产和财务决策。生产决策（例如，何时生产和生产多少，何时订购和订购多少）和财务决策（例如，短期借款，发放股息）在公司中是相互关联的。该项目将把生产和库存控制方面的最新成果与财务方面的成果以及随机规划方面的新方法结合起来，开发模型，帮助企业在需求不确定和财务限制的情况下同时做出生产和财务决策。在本研究中，将建立同时进行生产和财务决策的模型，研究财务约束对生产决策的影响。这是由与行业合作的经验所驱动的。这些研究任务提供了将传统生产和库存控制模型与金融相结合的潜力。如果研究成功，将为问题提供结构性结果，并为管理者提供有意义的见解；并且，为改进生产和库存计划提供有用的工具。决策工具将整合物流和资金流，帮助企业在存在不确定性的情况下同时做出生产和财务决策。这些模型将由工业合作伙伴通过实际使用进行演示。