Download or read book Operations Management and Marketing Interface written by Michelle M. H. Şeref and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: This dissertation focuses on supply chain management (SCM) decisions under various marketing strategies in the Operations Management (OM) / Marketing interface research area. It is composed of three primary research chapters. The first research chapter examines optimal inventory and pricing decisions under advance selling. Advance selling is a marketing strategy in which consumers have a chance to reserve a product in an advance sales period which occurs prior to the sales period. The retailer in this scenario must make an inventory order decision before the advance sales period begins to best meet demand in both the advance sales and consumption periods. I derive optimal inventory and pricing policies. The second research chapter focuses on optimal pricing and time-to-market decisions in a new product technology (NPD) environment. I consider two generations of a new technology product considering both price and diffusion effects on sales. I derive optimal pricing and time-to-market decisions for three different sales functions. The final research chapter considers the innovation speed of new technologies in a pricing and time-to-market model. I determine the optimal number of generations to offer of a new product in this scenario. All three research chapters contribute to the OM/Marketing research literature by solving business problems from a combined OM and Marketing perspective.