现货供应不确定下的优化采购策略研究

在现货市场和传统契约市场共存时,研究了现货供应的不确定性和销售商的风险规避态度对于销售商的采购策略的影响。首先,在现货供应充足和供应不确定两种情况下分析了实现供应链协调的最优订购量和退货价格,以及销售商的风险规避态度对于订购量的影响.然后,通过数值计算进行了分析和验证.结果表明,现货供应充足时的订购量总是低于现货供应不确定时的订购量;但现货供应充足时供应链的期望利润高于现货供应不确定的情况.现货市场存在下,风险厌恶因子对订购量的影响趋势与单纯契约市场下正好相反.     

供应链融资结构视角下的零售商订购策略研究

本文引入供应链融资结构因素,在传统库存管理模型基础上,研究零售商在面临随机市场需求情形下考虑股权和债权等融资方式的订购策略,建立允许零售商延期支付的最优订购模型,利用最优化理论与方法得到了该模型的最优解,证明了最优解的存在性和唯一性,并分析了债权融资比例、价格成本比例系数、销售价格、订货周期、回购价格、进货价格、缺货成本、库存成本、以及融资利率等因素对最优解的影响。进一步,通过数值示例深入探讨具体市场环境下零售商的最优订购量,并进行了敏感性分析。研究发现,债权融资比例、价格成本比例系数、进货价格、订购周期、库存成本与零售商订购量存在负相关关系;缺货成本、回购价格、销售价格与零售商订购量正相关。相关研究结论可以为零售商订购行为提供科学指导,并为其库存管理提供重要决策依据。     

两种订货模式下订购和促销联合优化策略

本文基于CVaR决策准则,通过构建需求依赖于促销的一般需求模型,其中包括加法和乘法需求模型作为特例,考察了一次订货和允许紧急订货两种模式下风险厌恶零售商关于促销和库存的联合优化问题。讨论了紧急订购成本、风险厌恶以及市场需求变动对最优策略的影响,并对两种模式下零售商的最优策略和收益进行了比较分析,结果表明:在两种订货模式下,零售商的最优订购量和促销努力均随风险厌恶程度的增大而降低;紧急订货模式下的促销努力和实现的收益大于一次订货模式,且在加法需求模型下,紧急订货模式下的初次订购量小于一次订货模式的最优订购量。运用随机变量一阶和二阶交替随机占优的概念刻画了市场需求变动下零售商如何调整最优策略的充分条件。最后实施数值实验验证了理论分析结果。     

一次提前订购下生鲜农产品的最优订货

针对生鲜农产品实体损耗一直困扰着农产品经营这一难题,研究由一个零售商和一个供应商组成的农产品订货问题。在零售商一次提前订购基础上,分别建立供应商一次供货和二次供货模型。经比较得到,二次供货下的最优订购量要大于一次供货下的最优订购量;零售商、供应商在二次供货下的最大期望利润要大于一次供货下的最大期望利润。最后,通过实例分析发现:二次供货下零售商和供应商一起承担了生鲜农产品损耗给供应链带来的风险;季中批发价的合理设定,可以使二次供货下的供应链对生鲜农产品损耗的抵御力更强。研究结论对我国进一步深入"农超对接"具有一定的指导意义。     

随机供需条件下装配商的订购-定价联合决策问题

针对随机供需条件下装配商的订购与定价联合决策这一难题，运用随机非线性规划方法，以装配商期望利润最大化为目标，建立零部件订购量与最终产品定价的多维优化模型。刻画了给定价格时的最优订购量和给定订购量时的最优价格，最后给出关于最优订购-定价的必要条件。通过数值算例验证了模型结论并进一步探讨随机供需的影响，为装配商的订购-定价决策以及供应商改进提供有益的管理启示。     

多销售点生产──库存系统协调控制模型与算法

本文研究一个有多个销售点的生产企业的生产库存协调控制问题。生产企业将按费用最低的要求来确定生产批量；而销售点则按利润目标来确定其最优订购批量；它们之间的总量不衡将由生产企业通过价格折扣方式来协调,即鼓励销售商采取满意的订购批量,使销售商也能实现利润最大化。文中研究了如何确定最优生产批量、销售商的订购批量和合理的价格折扣等问题,建立了数学模型,给出了相应的算法,并讨论了需求随价格弹性变动情形下生产一库存一销售系统协调控制的问题,得到了一些新的结果。     

风险规避供应链的回购契约安排

运用CVaR方法研究了具有促销效应且风险规避供应链的回购契约协调问题.探讨了促销效应和风险规避对最优订购量的影响,指出促销效应的存在增大了最优订购量,而销售商的风险规避减小了最优订购量.考察了两种能协调风险规避供应链的改进回购契约安排,表明当销售商不过于规避风险时,引入成本分摊机制的回购契约就能协调供应链;但当销售商非常规避风险时,需要对回购商品的数量进行限制且使回购价格不小于批发价格才能协调供应链.最后讨论了供应商对两类契约的选择问题,并考察了销售商的风险规避对回购价格的影响.     

多因素扰动情景下应急数量弹性契约的供应链协调

研究突发事件发生导致多种因素干扰的情景下,数量弹性契约是否能实现二级供应链协调,并寻找供应链协调时最优订货与定价策略。针对市场价格稳定和随机两种情况,设定契约弹性系数为常量,分别建立市场价格稳定不变与随机波动两种情况下的应急数量弹性契约模型,寻找它们实现协调的内在约束条件,并与基准模型下的结论进行比较。然后将契约弹性系数由常量拓展为变量,判断是否同时存在最优的弹性系数和订货量,分析弹性系数的变化对于生产、订货决策及供应链整体收益的影响。研究结果证明：当弹性系数为常量时,只要对基准契约的批发价进行适当调整,供应链就能协调应对两种情景下的突发事件,此时,可以找到唯一的最优订货决策。当弹性系数为变量时,两种情景下的供应链均不存在唯一的最优订货决策,但存在唯一的最优供货决策,并且契约弹性系数的改变不会影响供应链期望收益。最后通过算例验证了上述结论的正确性。     

缺货损失高于补货成本的易逝品供应链协调

本文研究了缺货损失高于补货成本易逝品的供应链契约.在供应链中,制造商具有较长提前期的低成本生产和快速供货的高成本生产两种模式,快速生产模式满足零售商紧急补充订货.由于缺货损失高于补货成本.当订货不能满足需求时制造商快速供货生产模式满足缺货的成本最小化订货策略比允许缺货的订货策略使供应链整体业绩更优.研究了制造商与零售商之间订货、补充订货与退货契约,发现存在合理的契约能协调零售商和制造商行为实现供应链整体成本最优.     

随机需求下企业采购外包的风险与博弈分析

企业将具有随机需求的报童商品的订购管理外包给第三方物流公司(3PL),使3PL和企业共同分摊不确定风险,3PL在管理企业物流活动的同时成为企业风险的分担者.这种合作方式无疑会对企业和3PL的决策产生重要影响.本文结合现有文献关于3PL在企业管理的作用,从数学模型上刻画3PL管理报童产品订购对企业、3PL的决策和绩效的影响.通过模型求解,本文得到了3PL最优订购量、企业最优销售价格和最优的损失分担比例满足的条件,不仅如此,通过对比3PL管理订购和企业管理订购的数学模型,本文发现在一定的损失分担比例和委托费用的前提下,3PL管理订购能够给企业和3PL带来更多的收益,而且风险越大3PL管理订购的利益就越突出.     

Criteria for selecting a production control philosophy

Logistic objectives constitute a compromise between having short leadtimes and a low volume of work in progress on the one hand and a high resource loading and due date obligation on the other. Miscellaneous production planning approaches offered today provide different combinations of logistic objectives for satisfying a manufacturing strategy. To combine the strength of the various approaches into a unified system, a new approach based on a dynamic and distributed production planning methodology is proposed. To customize the approach, various analyses and specifications have to be made and for that reason some important characteristics and criteria for analysing production control philosophies will be given.     

The social construction of the meaning of acute stressors: a qualitative study of the personal accounts of police officers using a stress counselling service

The police profession is one in which acute stressors are encountered more frequently than in other occupations. Using the personal accounts of 35 police officers attending an in-house stress counselling clinic, the aim of the present study was to provide a qualitative examination of how the institutional context of policing influenced the ways in which acute stressors signified to individual police officers experiencing felt distress. Using the framework of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy as an analytical tool, it is argued that beliefs contributing to the experience of felt distress are related to the way in which policing as both an identity and an activity is constructed through the police organizational culture. Not only do these constructions influence the ways in which officers perceive themselves and their environments, but they also operate at the collective level to 'normalize' some emotional responses and to 'pathologize' others which, it is argued, could impact upon the outcomes of interventions such as stress counselling.     

The moderating role of social support in Karasek's job strain model

This paper examines whether social support is a boundary-determining criterion in the job strain model of Karasek (1979). The particular focus is the extent to which different sources of social support, work overload and task control influence job satisfaction, depersonalization and supervisor assessments of work performance. Hypotheses are tested using prospective survey data from 80 clerical staff in a university setting. Results revealed 3-way interactions among levels of support (supervisor, co-worker, non-work), perceived task control and work overload on levels of work performance and employee adjustment (self-report). After controlling for levels of negative affect in all analyses, there was evidence that high levels of supervisor support mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of job satisfaction and reduced reported levels of depersonalization. Moreover, high levels of non-work support and co-worker support also mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of work performance. The results are discussed in terms of the importance of social support networks both at, and beyond, the work context.     

Job insecurity, coping resources and personality dispositions in occupational strain

This paper presents research on the relationships between the work-related stressor of perceived job insecurity and various indicators of occupational strain, taking into account employees' personality dispositions (trait negative and positive affectivity) and coping resources. Respondents were 222 Australian public servants surveyed during organizational restructuring that involved downsizing and threat to job certainty. The research was formulated within an adaptation of Osipow, Doty, and Spokane's (1985) framework of stress-strain-coping that included the possible direct as well as moderating effects of personality dispositions in reporting occupational strain (Parkes, 1990). Findings from hierarchical regression analyses indicate consistent significant independent effects of personality dispositions, coping resources and perceived job insecurity on various indicators of strain. There was also support for the moderating roles of negative affectivity and self-care in the relation between perceived job insecurity and physical strain. Implications for the role of dispositional factors, especially negative affectivity, and the utility of various coping resources in accounting for occupational strain in times of threatened job security are discussed.     

Introduction to Special Section on Sensitivity Analysis and Summary of NCSU/USDA Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis

This guest editorial is a summary of the NCSU/USDA Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis held June 11–12, 2001 at North Carolina State University and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis. The objective of the workshop was to learn across disciplines in identifying, evaluating, and recommending sensitivity analysis methods and practices for application to food‐safety process risk models. The workshop included presentations regarding the Hazard Assessment and Critical Control Points (HACCP) framework used in food‐safety risk assessment, a survey of sensitivity analysis methods, invited white papers on sensitivity analysis, and invited case studies regarding risk assessment of microbial pathogens in food. Based on the sharing of interdisciplinary information represented by the presentations, the workshop participants, divided into breakout sessions, responded to three trigger questions: What are the key criteria for sensitivity analysis methods applied to food‐safety risk assessment? What sensitivity analysis methods are most promising for application to food safety and risk assessment? and What are the key needs for implementation and demonstration of such methods? The workshop produced agreement regarding key criteria for sensitivity analysis methods and the need to use two or more methods to try to obtain robust insights. Recommendations were made regarding a guideline document to assist practitioners in selecting, applying, interpreting, and reporting the results of sensitivity analysis.     

Job stress, job strain, and psychological withdrawal among Dutch university staff: towards a dualprocess model for the effects of occupational stress

This study examined the antecedents of job strain (emotional exhaustion, health complaints) and withdrawal behaviour (e.g. lowered organizational commitment) among a cross-sectional sample of 131 academic staff members of the law department of a large Dutch university. Conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) provided the theoretical background for this study. Strains and withdrawal behaviours were expected to be most prominent among those who reported having few resources and/or who reported high job demands. Structural equation modelling revealed that this was indeed the case. As predicted, differential patterns of effects emerged for job demands and job resources. Analysis of the effects of four job-specific stressors revealed that especially the structural aspects of a staff member's teaching task (e.g. the number of students in their classes) contributed strongly to perceived job demands. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.     

Distinguishing traumatic, vicarious and routine operational stressor exposure and attendant adverse consequences in a sample of police officers

Problems in studying occupational stress within the police service are identified and the paucity of work on operational duties as potential stressors are discussed. The present study reports the results of a factor analysis of operational stressors (N = 601 serving British police officers) that revealed three factors: exposure to death and disaster; violence and injury; sexual crime. These were demonstrated to be reliable scales and were included in logistic regression models together with a range of demographic and psychological variables. Models were applied to men and women separately, which showed there to be different predictors of the likelihood of suffering distress (measured by the General Health Questionnaire, GHQ) in terms of the officer's gender and operational role. Overall the model for women officers was better at predicting psychological distress than that for men. These findings are related to aspects of the police occupational culture. Further discussion is offered that conceptualizes police operational stressors as traumatic, routine and vicarious. Finally, some implications are drawn for the provision of stress intervention in the light of this differentiation.     

Dermal Uptake of 18 Dilute Aqueous Chemicals: In Vivo Disappearance‐Method Measures Greatly Exceed In Vitro‐Based Predictions

Average rates of total dermal uptake (K_up) from short‐term (e.g., bathing) contact with dilute aqueous organic chemicals (DAOCs) are typically estimated from steady‐state in vitro diffusion‐cell measures of chemical permeability (K_p) through skin into receptor solution. Widely used (“PCR‐vitro”) methods estimate K_up by applying diffusion theory to increase K_p predictions made by a physico‐chemical regression (PCR) model that was fit to a large set of K_p measures. Here, K_up predictions for 18 DAOCs made by three PCR‐vitro models (EPA, NIOSH, and MH) were compared to previous in vivo measures obtained by methods unlikely to underestimate K_up. A new PCR model fit to all 18 measures is accurate to within approximately threefold (r = 0.91, p < 10^?5), but the PCR‐vitro predictions (r > 0.63) all tend to underestimate the K_up measures by mean factors (UF, and p value for testing UF = 1) of 10 (EPA, p < 10^?6), 11 (NIOSH, p < 10^?8), and 6.2 (MH, p = 0.018). For all three PCR‐vitro models, log(UF) correlates negatively with molecular weight (r² = 0.31 to 0.84, p = 0.017 to < 10^?6) but not with log(vapor pressure) as an additional predictor (p > 0.05), so vapor pressure appears not to explain the significant in vivo/PCR‐vitro discrepancy. Until this discrepancy is explained, careful in vivo measures of K_up should be obtained for more chemicals, the expanded in vivo database should be compared to in vitro‐based predictions, and in vivo data should be considered in assessing aqueous dermal exposure and its uncertainty.     

Systems Resilience for Multihazard Environments: Definition,Metrics, and Valuation for Decision Making

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that the 2011 natural disasters, including the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, resulted in $366 billion in direct damages and 29,782 fatalities worldwide. Storms and floods accounted for up to 70% of the 302 natural disasters worldwide in 2011, with earthquakes producing the greatest number of fatalities. Average annual losses in the United States amount to about $55 billion. Enhancing community and system resilience could lead to massive savings through risk reduction and expeditious recovery. The rational management of such reduction and recovery is facilitated by an appropriate definition of resilience and associated metrics. In this article, a resilience definition is provided that meets a set of requirements with clear relationships to the metrics of the relevant abstract notions of reliability and risk. Those metrics also meet logically consistent requirements drawn from measure theory, and provide a sound basis for the development of effective decision‐making tools for multihazard environments. Improving the resiliency of a system to meet target levels requires the examination of system enhancement alternatives in economic terms, within a decision‐making framework. Relevant decision analysis methods would typically require the examination of resilience based on its valuation by society at large. The article provides methods for valuation and benefit‐cost analysis based on concepts from risk analysis and management.     

UNIX系统性能监控简述及shell系统资源统计程序

本文简要阐述了unix系统中(主要以IBM的AIX为例)进行系统性能管理的几种命令行工具,并通过编写shell实例程序,运用其中提到的工具实现系统资源利用率的统计程序,为做好unix系统管理和调优提供参考.