successive retailers. The warehouse holds no inventory. Under the "static" policy, allocations are determined for all retailers … simultaneously at the moment the delivery vehicle leaves the warehouse. Under the "dynamic" policy, allocations are determined …) allocation assumptions, are: (1) optimal allocations under each policy involve bringing each retailer's "normalized-inventory" to …

We prove the existence of Pareto optimal allocations within sets of acceptable allocations when decision makers have …

allocation , and prove that only equilibrium allocations can meet all the requirements. In fact, it takes place under very …