Publications

Webster S (1992) New bounds for the identical parallel processor weighted flow time problem. Management Science 38:124 136.

Webster S (1992) Job and tool scheduling for flexible machining cells. New Directions for Operations Research in Manufacturing, G. Fandel, T. Gulledge, and A. Jones (eds.), Springer Verlag, NY, 200-215.

Webster S (1993) A Priority rule for minimizing weighted flow time in a class of parallel machine scheduling problems. European Journal of Operational Research 70:327-334. (Special issue devoted to machine scheduling problems)

Webster S (1993) Bounds and asymptotic results for the uniform parallel processor weighted flow time problem. Operations Research Letters 14:85-90.

Webster S, Jacobs FR (1993) Scheduling a flexible machining system with dynamic tool movement. Production and Operations Management 2:38-54.

Webster S (1994) A note on 'Schedule of n jobs on two identical machines to minimize weighted mean flow time.' Computers and Industrial Engineering 26:795-796.

Gupta A, Webster S (1994) A multi echelon queueing model with dynamic priority scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 74:86-94.

Webster S, Robinson EP (1994) Analytical results for two echelon distribution network design. Location Science 2:223-239.

Webster S (1995) Weighted flow time bounds for scheduling identical processors. European Journal of Operational Research 80:103-111.

Webster S, Gupta A (1995) The general optimal market area model with uncertain and nonstationary demand. Location Science 3:25-38.

Geoffrion AM, Morris JG, Webster ST (1995) Distribution system design. Facility Location: A Survey of Applications and Methods, Z. Drezner (ed.), Springer-Verlag, NY, 185-202.

Webster S, Baker KR (1995) Scheduling groups of jobs on a single machine. Operations Research 43:692-703.

Webster S (1996) A general lower bound for the makespan problem. European Journal of Operational Research 89:516-524.

Webster S (1997) The complexity of scheduling job families about a common due date. Operations Research Letters 20:65-74.

Azizoglu M, Webster S (1997) Scheduling job families about an unrestricted common due date. International Journal of Production Research 35:1321-1330.

Azizoglu M, Webster S (1997) Scheduling about an unrestricted common due window with arbitrary earliness/tardiness penalty rates. IIE Transactions 29:1001-1006.

Webster S (1998) A note on 'Parallel machine scheduling with batch setup times.' Operations Research 46:423.

Webster S, Jog P, Gupta A (1998) A genetic algorithm for scheduling job families on a single machine with arbitrary earliness/tardiness penalties and an unrestricted common due date. International Journal of Production Research 36:2543-2551.

Daniels R, Hua SY, Webster S (1999) Heuristics for parallel-machine flexible-resource scheduling problems with unspecified job assignment. Computers and Operations Research 26:143-155.

Webster S (1999) Remarks on 'Some extensions of the discrete lotsizing and scheduling problem.' Management Science 45:768-769.

Webster S (2000) Frameworks for adaptable scheduling algorithms. Journal of Scheduling 3:21-49.

Azizoglu M, Webster S (2000) Scheduling a batch processing machine with non-identical job sizes. International Journal of Production Research 38:2173-2184.

Webster S, Weng ZK (2000) A risk-free perishable item returns policy. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2:100-106.

Gupta JND, Ho J, Webster S (2000) Bicriteria optimization of makespan and mean flowtime on two identical parallel machines. Journal of the Operational Research Society 51:1330-1339.

Webster S, Azizoglu M (2001) Dynamic programming algorithms for scheduling parallel machines with family setup times. Computers and Operations Research 28:127-137.

Webster S, Weng ZK (2001) Improving repetitive manufacturing systems: model and insights. Operations Research 49:99-106.

Webster S (2001) A case study of scheduling practice at a machine tool manufacturer. Human Performance in Planning and Scheduling, B.L. MacCarthy and J.R. Wilson (eds.), Taylor and Francis, 67-81.

Webster S (2001) A field test of a prototype scheduling system. Human Performance in Planning and Scheduling, B.L. MacCarthy and J.R. Wilson (eds.), Taylor and Francis, 231-243.

Azizoglu M, Webster S (2001) Scheduling a batch processing machine with incompatible job families. Computers & Industrial Engineering 39:325-335. (Special Issue on Mathematical Models for Production Planning and Scheduling and their Applications)

McKay KN, Pinedo M, Webster S (2002) Practice-focused research issues for scheduling systems. Production and Operations Management 11:249-258.

Yang KK, Webster S, Ruben R (2002) An evaluation of flexible workday policies in job shops. Decision Sciences 33:223-249.

Webster S (2002) Dynamic pricing and lead-time policies for make-to-order systems. Decision Sciences 33:579-599.

Azizoglu M, Webster S (2003) Scheduling parallel machines to minimize weighted flowtime with family set-up times. International Journal of Production Research 41:1199-1215.

Yang KK, Webster S, Ruben R (2003) An exploratory analysis of flexible workday policies in a job shop. International Journal of Production Research 41:1721-1737.

Yang KK, Ruben R, Webster S (2003) Managing vendor inventory in a dual level distribution system. Journal of Business Logistics 24:91-108.

Gupta JND, Ruiz-Torres AJ, Webster S (2003) Minimizing maximum tardiness and number of tardy jobs on parallel machines subject to minimum flow-time. Journal of the Operational Research Society 54:1263-1274.

LaPoint G, Webster S (2004) International supply chain management. The Internet Encyclopedia, H. Bidgoli, (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 233-243.

Yang KK, Webster S, Ruben R (2007) An evaluation of worker cross-training and flexible workdays in job shops. IIE Transactions 39:735-746. (Summary appeared in the July 2007 issue of Industrial Engineer magazine)

Webster S, Mitra S (2007) Competitive strategy in remanufacturing and the impact of take-back laws. Journal of Operations Management 25:1123-1140.

Wang CX, Webster S (2007) Channel coordination for a supply chain with a risk-neutral manufacturer and a loss-averse retailer. Decision Sciences 38:361-389. (Finalist for 2007 Decision Sciences Best Paper Award)

Webster S (2008) Principles and Tools for Supply Chain Management, McGraw-Hill, Boston.

Mitra S, Webster S (2008) Essays on Competitive Strategy in Remanufacturing, VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken, Germany.

Mitra S, Webster S (2008) Competition in remanufacturing and the effects of government subsidies. International Journal of Production Economics 111:287-298.

Webster S, Weng ZK (2008) Ordering and pricing policies in a manufacturing and distribution supply chain for fashion products. International Journal of Production Economics 114:476-486.

Wang CX, Webster S (2009) The loss-averse newsvendor problem. Omega 37:93-105.

Wang CX, Webster S, Suresh NC (2009) Would a risk-averse newsvendor order less at a higher selling price? European Journal of Operational Research 196:544-553.

Wang CX, Webster S (2009) Markdown money contracts for perishable goods with clearance pricing. European Journal of Operational Research 196:1113-1122.

Webster S (2009) Principles of Supply Chain Management, 2nd edition, Dynamic Ideas, Belmont, MA, 2009.

Ozlen M, Webster S (2010) Minimizing total flowtime on two parallel machines with planned downtimes and resumable jobs. International Journal of Production Research 48:201-226.

Sun X, Gauri D, Webster S (2011) Forecasting for cruise line revenue management. Journal of Revenue & Pricing Management 10:306-324.

Wang CX, Webster S, Zhang S (2011) A comparison of two sourcing tactics for a new component. European Journal of Operational Research 211:310-317.

Kazaz B, Webster S (2011) The impact of yield-dependent trading costs on pricing and production planning under supply uncertainty. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13:404-417.

Webster S, Ruben R, Yang KK (2012) Impact of storage assignment decisions on a bucket brigade order picking line. Production and Operations Management 21:276-290.

Wu Z, Kazaz B, Webster S, Yang KK (2012) Ordering, pricing, and lead-time quotation under lead-time and demand uncertainty. Production and Operations Management 21:576-589.

Benaroch M, Webster S, Kazaz B (2012) Impact of sourcing flexibility on the outsourcing of services under demand uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research 219:272-283.

Wang CX, Webster S, Zhang S (2012) Newsvendor models with alternative risk preferences within expected utility theory and prospect theory frameworks. Handbook of Newsvendor Problems, T. Choi (ed.), Springer-Verlag, NY 177-196.

Wang CX, Webster S, Zhang S (2014) Robust price-setting newsvendor model with interval market size and consumer willingness-to-pay. International Journal of Production Economics 154:100-112.

Bernegger PM, Webster S (2014) Fixed-cycle smoothed production improves lean performance for make-to-stock manufacturing. Interfaces 44:411-427. (Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award, May 2015)

Cole D, Kazaz B, Webster S (2015) Satisfying warranty claims of obsolete product. Trends and Research in the Decision Sciences, M. Warkentin, (ed.), Pearson, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 227-247.

Noparumpa T, Kazaz B, Webster S (2015) Wine futures and advance selling under quality uncertainty. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 17:411-426. (Featured in MSOM summary and video; featured in Wine Spectator, May 18, 2015; featured in INFORMS President's Pick, December 2015; featured in MSOM editor blog, December 2015; featured in INFORMS Editor's Cut, September 2017)

Kazaz B, Webster S (2015) Technical Note -- Price-setting newsvendor problems with uncertain supply and risk aversion. Operations Research 63:807-811.

Cole D, Kazaz B, Webster S (2016) Final purchase and trade-in decisions in response to a component phase-out announcement: A deterministic analysis. International Journal of Production Research 54:1257-1272. (Best Analytical Research Paper, Decision Sciences Institute Conference, November 2014)

Park JH, Kazaz B, Webster S (2016) Technical Note -- Pricing below cost under exchange-rate risk. Production and Operations Management 25:153-159,

Kazaz B, Webster S, Yadav P (2016) Interventions for an artemisinin-based malaria medicine supply chain. Production and Operations Management 25:1576-1600. (Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award, May 2017)

Hekimoglu MH, Kazaz B, Webster S (2017) Wine analytics: Fine wine pricing and selection under weather and market uncertainty. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 19:202-215. (Featured in Forbes, April 2017; brief video; featured in INFORMS Editor's Cut, September 2017)

Eftekhar M, Li H, Van Wassenhove LN, Webster S (2017) The role of media exposure on coordination in the humanitarian setting. Production and Operations Management 26:802-816.

Cole D, Mahapatra S, Webster S (2017) A comparison of buyback and trade-in policies to acquire used products for remanufacturing. Journal of Business Logistics 38:217-232.

Park JH, Kazaz B, Webster S (2017) Risk mitigation of production hedging. Production and Operations Management 26:1299-1314.

Li H, Webster S (2017) Optimal pricing of correlated product options under the paired combinatorial logit model. Operations Research 65:1215-1230.

Noparumpa T, Kazaz B, Webster S (2018) Wine futures: pricing and allocation as levers against quality uncertainty. Handbook on Recent Advances in Commodity and Financial Modelling – Quantitative Methods in Banking, Finance, Insurance, Energy and Commodity Markets, G. Consigli, S. Stefani, G. Zambruno (eds), Springer Series, to appear.

Park JH, Kazaz B, Webster S (2018) Surface versus air shipment of humanitarian goods under demand uncertainty. Production and Operations Management 27:928-948. (POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management Best Paper Award, May 2016)

Ayvaz-Cavdaroglu N, Gauri DK, Webster S (2019) Empirical evidence of revenue management in the cruise line industry. Journal of Travel Research 58:104-120.

Li H, Webster S, Mason N, Kempf K (2019) Product-line pricing under discrete mixed multinomial logit demand. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 21:14-28. (First place, MSOM Practice-Based Research Competition, June 2017)

Li H, Webster S, Yu G (2020) Product design under multinomial logit choices: optimization of quality and prices in an evolving product line. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 22:1011-1025.

Mahapatra S, Cole D, Pal R, Webster S (2021) Toward a unified understanding and management of closed loop operations. Pursuing Sustainability OR/MS Applications in Sustainable Design, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Resource Management, C Chen Y Chen V Jayaraman (eds.), Springer Series, 219-238.

Ayvaz-Cavdaroglu N, Kazaz B, Webster S (2021) Incentivizing farmers to invest in quality through quality-based payment. Production and Operations Management 30(10):3812-3830.

Kazaz B, Webster S (2022) The influence of yield-dependent trading costs on pricing and production planning under supply uncertainty. Agricultural Supply Chain Management Research O Boyabatli, B Kazaz, CS Tang (eds.), Springer Series, 87-102.

Noparumpa T, Kazaz B, Webster S (2022) A prescriptive model for selling wine futures to mitigate quality uncertainty. Agricultural Supply Chain Management Research O Boyabatli, B Kazaz, CS Tang (eds.), Springer Series, 123-139.

Hekimoglu MH, Kazaz B, Webster S (2022) Wine analytics: futures or bottles? Agricultural Supply Chain Management Research O Boyabatli, B Kazaz, CS Tang (eds.), Springer Series, 141-156.

Kazaz B, Webster S, Yadav P (2022) Policy interventions for an agriculture-based malaria medicine supply chain. Agricultural Supply Chain Management Research O Boyabatli, B Kazaz, CS Tang (eds.), Springer Series, 229-245.

Eftekhar M, Song JS, Webster S (2022) Prepositioning and local purchasing for emergency operations under budget, demand and supply uncertainty. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24(1):315-332.

Wang Y, Webster S (2022) Product flexibility strategy under supply and demand risk. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24(3):1779-1795.

Wang Y, Yin R, Chen X, Webster S (2022) Investment efforts under complementary sourcing: the role of market risk and endogenous pricing. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24(5):2595-2610.

Gheibi S, Kazaz B, Webster S (2023) Capacity reservation and sourcing under exchange-rate uncertainty. Decision Sciences 54(3):257-276.

Dsouza A, Mishra AK, Webster S (2023) Vertical coordination and post-harvest losses: implications on food loss. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 45(1):460-486. (2023 Specialty Crop Economics Section of AAEA Outstanding Published Paper Award, July 2023)

Ketzenberg M, Oliva R, Wang Y, Webster S (2023) Retailer inventory data sharing in a fresh product supply chain. European Journal of Operational Research 307(2):680-693.

Webster S (2023) Multiple discrete choice and quantity with order statistic marginal utilities. Journal of Choice Modeling 46:100395.

Lim SFWT, Wang Q, Webster S (2023) Do It right the first time: vehicle routing with home delivery attempt predictors. Production and Operations Management 32(4):1262-1284.

Li H, Webster S (2023) Optimizing risk-balancing return under discrete choice models. Operations Research to appear.

Li H, Webster S (2023) Technical Note--Risk sensitivity and firm power: price competition with mean2-variance profit objective under multinomial logit demand. Operations Research to appear.

Kazaz B, Webster S, Yadav P (2024) Increasing the supply of health products in underserved regions. Production and Operations Management to appear.