Coordination and Competition in Outsourcing operations

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TOLGA AYDINLIYIM

1208 University of Oregon - Lundquist College of Business - Eugene, OR - 97403

Tel: +1 (541) 346 - 5150, Fax: +1 (541) 346 - 3341

tolga@uoregon.edu , http://www.uoregon.edu/~tolga

(Last Updated: September 5, 2011)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Time Sensitive Capacity Allocation Issues in Supply Chains, Consumer Driven Demand in Operations

Management, Game Theoretical Models in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Scheduling Theory and

Applications.

EDUCATION

Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management - Cleveland, OH

Thesis Title: "Coordination and Competition in Outsourcing Operations"

Ph. D. in Operations Research - Department of Operations (August 2007)

Middle East Technical University - Ankara, Turkey

B.S. in Industrial Engineering - Industrial Engineering Department (June 2003)

Minor in Economic Policy - Department of Economics (June 2003)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

University of Oregon, Lundquist College of Business - Eugene, OR

Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences (since August 2007)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology- Clearwater Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

Visiting Academic Scholar (June 2011)

Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shatin, Hong Kong SAR

Visiting Academic Scholar (June 2007 - July 2007)

Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management - Cleveland, OH

Graduate Assistant and Instructor - Department of Operations (August 2003 - May 2007)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

1. "Coordination of Outsourced Operations to Minimize Weighted Flow Time and Capacity Booking Costs" with G.

L. Vairaktarakis. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 2010. (12)2 pp. 236-255.

2. "Sequencing Strategies and Coordination Issues for Outsourcing and Subcontracting Operations" with G. L.

Vairaktarakis. Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise. International Series in

Operations Research and Management Science, 2011. Volume 151 pp. 269-319.

3. "Discount Pricing for Source Reduction via Consumer Reuse" with M. Pangburn. Proceedings of the 14th

MSOM Conference. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2009.

4. "Centralization vs. Competition in Subcontracting Operations" with G. L. Vairaktarakis. Proceedings of the 13th

MSOM Conference. University of Maryland, June 2008.

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

5. "Is the Cue "In Stock" Always Effective? Inventory Information Disclosure Tactics to Leverage Stockout Risk"

with M. Pangburn, E. Rabinovich, M.Choi. (submitted to Mgmt Sci)

6. "Reducing Packaging Waste and Cost via Consumer Price Discounts" Eco-Friendly Consumption" with M.

Pangburn. (submitted to Dec Sci)

7. "Coordinating the Scheduling of Subcontracted Operations: Centralization, Competition and FCFS Processing"

with G. L. Vairaktarakis. (under review for 2nd

round at NRL)

WORKING PAPERS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

8. "Subcontracting Strategies with Stochastic Third-Party Capacity and Tardiness Penalty Contracts" with G. L.

Vairaktarakis.

9. "Time Sensitive Capacity Allocation Issues in Subcontracting" with G. L. Vairaktarakis.

10. "Coordination Issues for Timely Processing of Outsourced Operations: A Cooperative Savings Game Approach

for a Dynamic Capacity Booking Problem" with X. Cai, G. L. Vairaktarakis.

11. "An Efficient Heuristic for Premium Pricing of Multi-Attribute Products" with C. Latifoglu.

12. "Subcontracting in the Presence of Transactional and Contractual Customers" with Z. Yang.

13. "Managing Engineering Design for Competitive Sourcing in Closed-Loop Supply Chains" with N. N.

Murthy.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Operations Management (MBA Core, Undergraduate, Undergraduate Honors)

Statistics and Decision Modeling (MBA Core) 2

Research Papers

Working papers are available at http://www.uoregon.edu/~tolga

 Aydinliyim, T. and G. L. Vairaktarakis. 2010. "Coordination of Outsourced Operations to Minimize

Weighted Flow Time and Capacity Booking Costs". Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 236-255.

We consider a model where a set of manufacturers outsource finishing operations to a single third-party. Each available

day of production at the third party can be booked at a given cost announced by the third-party. Considering these costs,

the manufacturers book available production days in