Chen, Lucy Gongtao; Gavirneni, Srinagesh - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 9, pp. 1615-1632
We study a supply chain with one supplier and many retailers that face exogenous end-customer demands. The supplier and the retailers all try to minimize their own inventory-related costs. In contrast to the retailers' newsvendor-type ordering behavior (under which retailers may place orders...