Gürbüz, Mustafa Çagri; Moinzadeh, Kamran; Zhou, Yong-Pin - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 2, pp. 293-307
In this paper, we study the impact of coordinated replenishment and shipment in inventory/distribution systems. We analyze a system with multiple retailers and one outside supplier. Random demand occurs at each retailer, and the supplier replenishes all the retailers. In traditional inventory...