Stochastic production capacity: A bane or a boon for quick response supply chains?

The quick response (QR) system that can cope with demand volatility by shortening lead time has been well studied in the literature. Much of the existing literature assumes implicitly or explicitly that the manufacturers under QR can always meet the demand because the production capacity is always sufficient. However, when the order comes with a short lead time under QR, availability of the manufacturer's production capacity is not guaranteed. This motivates us to explore QR in supply chains with stochastic production capacity. Specifically, we study QR in a two-echelon supply chain with Bayesian demand information updating. We consider the situation where the manufacturer's production capacity under QR is uncertain. We first explore how stochastic production capacity affects supply chain decisions and QR implementation. We then incorporate the manufacturer's ability to expand capacity into the model. We explore how the manufacturer determines the optimal capacity expansion decision, and the value of such an ability to the supply chain and its agents. Finally, we extend the model to the two-stage two-ordering case and derive the optimal ordering policy by dynamic programming. We compare the single-ordering and two-ordering cases to generate additional managerial insights about how ordering flexibility affects QR when production capacity is stochastic. We also explore the transparent supply chain and find that our main results still hold.     

Purchase and retrieval competition for seasonal produce

We study the competition problem of purchase and multiretrieval of perishable seasonal produce, where wholesalers purchase and stock their products in the first period, and then retrieve and sell them in subsequent periods. We first consider the duopoly case and assume that the prices are exogenous and fluctuate. In each period, after the price realization, the wholesalers retrieve some stock from their warehouses to satisfy their demands. One wholesaler's unsatisfied customers can switch to another and be satisfied by its left retrieved products. Any unsold retrieved stock has no salvage value and any unsatisfied demand is lost. The unretrieved stock is carried to the next period at a perishable rate. The wholesalers compete for the substitute demand by determining their own purchase and retrieval quantities. We show the existence and uniqueness of a pure-strategy Nash equilibrium, and that the Nash equilibrium strategy has the simple “sell-down-to” structure. We also consider the general N-person game and show the existence of the Nash equilibrium, and characterize the structure of the equilibrium strategy for the symmetric case. In addition, we consider the case with endogenous prices, and show that the problem reduces to a repeated newsvendor game with price and inventory competition. We derive the conditions under which a unique Nash equilibrium exists and characterize the equilibrium strategy. Finally, we conduct numerical studies to examine the impacts of the model parameters on the equilibrium outcomes and to generate managerial insights.     

基于非局部理论的黏弹性基体中压电纳米梁热-机电振动特性

基于非局部Euler梁理论和Hamilton原理建立黏弹性基体中压电纳米梁的热-机电振动特性分析模型。综合考虑非局部效应、压电效应、温度场、电场等复杂因素影响,推导出黏弹性基体中压电纳米梁振动特性分析的振动控制方程,并利用分布参数传递函数方法求解出一般边界条件下压电纳米梁的固有频率及相应振型。以锆钛酸铅压电陶瓷-4材料制成的某压电纳米梁为例,给出了四种典型边界条件下该压电纳米梁的前四阶固有频率,并系统分析了非局部效应、外部电压、温度载荷、黏弹性基体等因素对压电纳米梁热-机电振动特性的影响规律。分析结果表明:所建立的振动特性分析模型及其求解方法在分析黏弹性基体中压电纳米梁的热-机电振动特性问题中准确有效。     

军事物流服务商准入标准设置和甄选研究综述

军事物流服务商甄选研究是新军事变革下供应商管理发展的重要方向,是有效完成后勤保障任务、顺利实施作战行动的重要保证。基于此,本文从供应商关系理论和发展、物流服务商指标体系选择以及结合其他方法对物流服务商甄选三个方面对国内外研究现状进行总结概述,对整个军事物流服务商的选择过程加以研究,将其科学客观地运用于军事物流服务商选择的实际操作中,对于加强军事物流服务商需求管理、提高选择质效以及优化工作流程具有重大意义。同时,分析现有研究成果的不足,并对其未来发展前景提出展望,针对性地提出了军事物流服务商初步准入标准以及后续复选的方法,为军事物流服务商选择体系的完善提供参考。     

深入学习贯彻习主席重要论述 全面推进军队院校军事理论研究创新发展【将军论坛】

科学的军事理论就是战斗力。在新起点上全面推进军队院校军事理论研究创新发展,必须深入学习贯彻习主席关于军事理论创新的重要论述,着力提高站位、谋篇布局、形成拳头,进一步加强标准统筹、导向统筹、力量统筹和机制统筹,努力为强军兴军实践提供科学理论支撑。     

微型导弹柔性充气翼结构设计与力学变形仿真

以NACA2412为基准翼型设计充气弹翼,采用柔性蒙皮应力分析理论并根据弹翼蒙皮材料强度极限理论建立考虑分布质量影响的改进应力表达模型,据此得到柔性薄膜弹翼允许充气压力范围。分析结果发现:柔性弹翼充气单元尺寸越小,相应的充气压力允许范围越大。采用ABAQUS/CAE软件以不可压缩壳单元仿真柔性充气弹翼在不同充气压力条件下的变形情况,发现非对称翼型充气后中间下凹的翘曲方式并确定柔性蒙皮的危险点,利用翼面典型线分析了充气翼局部力学变形特性。进一步对充气弹翼进行表面覆膜改进分析,获得了良好的结构力学性能改进效果。     

From the sea to outer space: The command of space as the foundation of spacepower theory

Colin Gray once lamented the absence of a ‘Mahan for the final frontier’ and spacepower theory in strategic studies. This article proposes the command of space as the fundamental concept of spacepower theory, and that Mahan himself has much to offer in the endeavour of spacepower theory-making than has hitherto been realised. The theory is advanced by tempering versions of the ‘command of space’, stressing its educational intent, and explaining the nuanced sub-concepts of space control and denial through understanding some precedents set by seapower theory. In the process, aspects of Mahanian and Corbettian seapower theory are unified.     

某型飞机侧向通道EA/QFT鲁棒控制

提出了一种MIMO定量反馈理论与特征值配置相结合的鲁棒解耦控制方法,该方法首先利用特征值配置使系统达到性能指标要求,通过对特征向量的限制实现MIMO系统解耦,然后利用QFT方法使其具备鲁棒性.通过对某型飞机侧向通道的仿真表明:该方法不仅解耦效果良好,而且具有较强的鲁棒性.     

基于经典控制理论的制导系统校正方法研究

针对空空导弹抗目标大机动时,制导系统持续增加的快速性需求,利用反馈/前馈控制信号可提高瞬态和频率响应的经典控制思想,以及在制导算法中引入导弹的实际加速度补偿量以改善制导回路性能的方法,设计了制导系统校正算法.然后,通过线性化模型对制导系统校正算法的性能进行了数字仿真,仿真结果表明系统校正算法能够降低目标机动时所产生的脱...     

灰靶理论的空中目标威胁评估与排序

对空中目标的威胁程度进行科学的评估与排序是防空指挥的重要环节,是防空指挥员进行火力分配的主要依据,也是防空指挥自动化系统的重要功能之一.灰靶理论是处理模式序列的灰关联分析理论,其核心概念是靶心度,可以依据靶心度进行模式分级.分析了影响空中目标威胁程度的主要因素,并基于灰靶理论建立了空中目标威胁评估与排序的数学模型,提出了应用灰靶理论进行威胁评估与排序的方法,为防空指挥员进行科学决策提供了理论依据.