Globalization of business results in significant changes and severe competition. These macro forces lead to international integration and improved performance standards. Products with contracting life cycles demand the whole supply chain to react effectively with flexibility. Together with the rapid development of information technology and recent moves in e-business, all these macro factors have forced business enterprises to restructure their supply chains. An important dimension of supply chain restructuring is to improve coordination amongst supply chain members to optimize overall performance. In many industries, we observe increasing activities in supply chain coordination through new coordination mechanisms and/or information sharing. At the same time, because incentives are not aligned, we also observe reluctance to adopt these new initiatives. / The main analytical results of this thesis are: (1) These new coordination mechanisms affect each supply chain member's payoff. However, as long as the stock level that upstream desires is higher than the one downstream desires, we find that upstream and downstream can always find a risk-sharing rule such that adoption of these new coordination mechanisms, along with the risk-sharing rule, will always lead to higher expected payoffs for both of the supply chain members. (2) Under those new coordination mechanisms, we find that, in general, if downstream receives a market demand signal that is greater than a cut off value, he will reveal it to upstream voluntarily; otherwise, he will not reveal. The cut off value is a function of downstream's information revealing cost, upstream's critical fractile and its prior belief of the demand signal. (3) We get similar results for the problem of capacity choice under traditional supply chain. But in this problem, whether or not downstream will share demand information to the upstream voluntarily is also dependent on downstream's critical fractile. / The main objective of this thesis is to model problems in supply chain regarding some new coordination mechanisms and information sharing to better understand the related incentive issues. We hope to identify some managerial insights to enhance better coordination within a supply chain. The main issues being addressed in this thesis are the followings: (1) There are new coordination mechanisms transferring the right to make stock level decision and the responsibility to keep stock to upstream. How will these changes influence incentives in the supply chain? Are there any arrangements such that all parties in a supply chain will be better off by adopting these new coordination mechanisms? (2) Transferring the responsibility to carry inventory from downstream to upstream often also requires information sharing but such information sharing may not be enforced by contract. In that case; will the downstream be willing to share information with the upstream voluntarily? (3) Demand information asymmetry also exists in traditional supply chain and upstream's capacity choice is heavily dependent on the demand information it obtained from downstream. What are the conditions for the downstream to voluntarily reveal the private information about demand? Knowing the answers to these questions help us to better understand incentive issues to enhance better supply chain coordination. / Chu Wai-hung Julius. / "Jun 2002." / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-10, Section: A, page: 3630. / Supervisor: Ching Chyi Lee. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-123). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

Wong, Wing Shuet. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-88). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Table Of Contents --- p.i / Tables of Figures and Tables --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Distribution Strategies --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Motivation --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3 --- Problem Description --- p.9 / Chapter 1.4 --- Contributions --- p.11 / Chapter 1.5 --- Conclusion --- p.12 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Literature Review --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- Crossdocking in the supply chain --- p.13 / Chapter 2.2 --- Simulation of crossdocking --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- Mathematic programming in crossdocking --- p.17 / Chapter 2.4 --- Conclusion --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Model Approach and Assumptions --- p.30 / Chapter 3.1 --- Simulation Modeling --- p.30 / Chapter 3.2 --- Model Assumptions --- p.31 / Chapter 3.3 --- Crossdocking in Arena® -Modules --- p.36 / Chapter 3.4 --- Conclusion --- p.43 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Simulation Design --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1 --- Factors in Simulation --- p.44 / Chapter 4.2 --- Experimental Design --- p.53 / Chapter 4.3 --- Performance Measures --- p.56 / Chapter 4.4 --- Conclusion --- p.57 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Results and Analysis --- p.58 / Chapter 5.1 --- Mean Hourly Throughput per Forklift (MTF) --- p.58 / Chapter 5.2 --- Mean Handling Time per Pallet (MHP) --- p.63 / Chapter 5.3 --- Comparison with original results --- p.65 / Chapter 5.4 --- Conclusion --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Conclusion and Recommendations For Future Work --- p.82 / Chapter 6.1 --- Conclusion --- p.82 / Chapter 6.2 --- Future research directions --- p.84 / References --- p.86

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-40). Also available in electronic version.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas at Dallas, 2006 / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-120)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-132).

The current Record of Study presents the qualitative and quantitative analysis of a company's network of distribution centers with the purpose of determining the convenience and the feasibility to reconfigure such a network. The study was performed with a multidisciplinary team of people within and outside of the organization. The distribution network was modeled in various forms and different solutions were obtained as new information was gathered from questionnaires, from observation and from the company's databases. Finally a recommendation was formulated to modify the current configuration of the distribution network and the feasibility to implement the suggested solution in practice was evaluated.