Iyer, Ananth V.; Deshpande, Vinayak; Wu, Zhengping - In: Management Science 49 (2003) 8, pp. 983-1002
In this paper, we analyze demand postponement as a strategy to handle potential demand surges. Under demand postponement, a fraction of the demands from the "regular" period are postponed and satisfied during a "postponement" period. This permits capacity to be procured to satisfy the postponed...