Balancing partner preferences for cost and carbon footprint in collaborative location-inventory decisions
This project studies how independent companies can jointly plan facility location and inventory decisions when cooperating horizontally, and how the resulting costs and benefits should be shared given that partners may value logistics cost and environmental impact differently. We developed models to balance partner preferences for logistics cost against carbon footprint reduction within a collaborative network.
A second strand examines how a partner's product characteristics — such as demand variability and profitability — and its innovativeness shape the benefits it can expect to gain from the cooperation, offering guidance on which partners stand to benefit most from joining a collaborative network.