Susan H. Xu

Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems

University Park

State College, PA 16802

United States

  • Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems

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1.

Using Dynamic Programming-Based Dss to Manage Inventory at Jeppesen

Interfaces, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 54-65, November/December 2001
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 28 Mar 2005
Elena Katok, Andrew Lathrop, William Tarantino and Susan H. Xu
University of Texas at Dallas, Accenture Corporation - Capability Modeling and Simulation, Center for Army Analysis and Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
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Dynamic programming, applications, inventory/production, perishable, aging items

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To Wait or Not to Wait: The Theory and Practice of Ticket Queues

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 10 May 2018
Kaan Kuzu, Long Gao and Susan H. Xu
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management and Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
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customer behaviors, service systems, ticket queue, Markov, dynamic updating

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Stockout Compensation: Joint Inventory and Price Optimization in Electronic Retailing

INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 18, Nov. 2, pp. 255-266, 2006
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2011
Hemant K. Bhargava, Daewon Sun and Susan H. Xu
University of California, Davis, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
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electronic commerce, stockout discount, differential pricing, inventory management, delay sensitive

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Managing Trade-In Programs Based on Product Characteristics and Customer Heterogeneity in Business-to-Business Markets

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Jun 2008
Kate Li, Duncan K. H. Fong and Susan H. Xu
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
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empirical research, trade-in program, signal-based forecast, count regression models, customer segmentation, substitutable and complementary products

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Challenges in RFID Enabled Supply Chain Management

Russell Barton, Henry H. Bi, Michael Freimer, Zan Huang, Dennis K.J. Lin, Jun Shu, Douglas Thomas, Susan Xu. 2006. Challenges in RFID Enabled Supply Chain Management. Quality Progress (0033-524X). 39(11): 23-28
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2019
Russell Barton, Henry H. Bi, Michael Freimer, Zan Huang, Dennis K.J. Lin, Jun Shu, Douglas Thomas and Susan H. Xu
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management, SignalDemand, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Pennsylvania State University - Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal College of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University - Department of Supply Chain & Information Systems, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
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RFID

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Service Performance Analysis and Improvement for a Ticket Queue with Balking Customers

Management Science, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 971-990, June 2007
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Nov 2011
Susan H. Xu, Long Gao and Jihong Ou
Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Decision Sciences
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ticket queue, service systems, Markov queues, quasi-birth-and-death processes, heuristics, service improvement

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Managing an Available-to-Promise Assembly System with Dynamic Short-Term Pseudo-Order Forecast

Management Science, Articles in Advance, pp. 1-21, November 2011
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2012
Long Gao, Susan H. Xu and Michael O. Ball
University of California, Riverside (UCR) - A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems and University of Maryland - Decision and Information Technologies Department
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available-to-promise, pseudo orders, Markov, stochastic dynamic programming, prioritization, resource and demand matching, resource-imbalance-based rationing, short-term and long-term forecasts, robustness

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Joint Dynamic Pricing of Multiple Perishable Products Under Consumer Choice

Production and Operations Management, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 279–304, May/June 2010
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Nov 2011
Yalcin Akcay, Harihara Prasad Natarajan and Susan H. Xu
Koc University, University of Miami - Department of Management and Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
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dynamic pricing, revenue management, perishable products, consumer choice, vertical and horizontal product assortments, efficient algorithm

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Dynamic Dual Capacity Sourcing for New Ethical Drugs

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Oct 2012
Hiroko Okajima, Susan H. Xu and Hui Zhao
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems and Penn State University
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dual capacity sourcing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, stochastics dynamic programming, base-capacity policy, R&D risks, stochastic demand and cost

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A Single-Period Analysis of a Two-Echelon Inventory System with Dependent Supply Uncertainty

Transportation Research Part B, Vol. 45, pp. 1128-1151, 2011
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Nov 2011
Susan H. Xu, Behdad Masih-Tehrani, Soundar Kumara and Haijun Li
Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Joint Inventory Replenishment and Component Allocation Optimization in an Assemble-to-Order System

Management Science, Vol. 50, pp. 99-116, January 2004
Posted: 21 Nov 2011
Yalcin Akcay and Susan H. Xu
Koc University and Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
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assemble to order, stochastic programming, inventory management, order-based component allocation, multidimensional knapsack problems, sample average approximation, heuristics

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Dynamic Assignment of Flexible Service Resources

Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 8, pp. 1345-1361, 2010
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Nov 2011
Yalcin Akcay, Anant Balakrishnan and Susan H. Xu
Koc University, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin and Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems
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Trigger Strategy Equilibriums in Stochastic Differential Games with Information Time Lags: An Analysis of Cooperative Production Strategies

SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 1197–1220, 2011
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Nov 2011
Tao Yao, Susan H. Xu and Bin Jiang
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania State University, University Park - Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems and DePaul University - Department of Management
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stochastic differential game, Pareto optimal, noncooperative strategies, trigger strategy, production