Browsing by Author "Abernathy, Frederick"
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Retailing and Supply Chains in the Information Age
Abernathy, Frederick; Dunlop, John T.; Hammond, Janice; Weil, David (Elsevier, 2000)This article describes how information technologies have reconfigured retailing and in turn the operation of a core US manufacturing industry, apparel. “Lean retailers” exchange point-of-sales information with their suppliers ... -
Scheduling and Ordering Production Policies in a Limited Capacity Manufacturing System: The Multiple Replenishment Products Case
Bouhia, Soundouss; Abernathy, Frederick (Harvard University, 2003)This paper formulates production policies to maximize the performance of an apparel manufacturing system that replenishes basic items characterized by a flat average demand. The simulation-based model compares a number of ...