Huang, Wei; Kulkarni, Vidyadhar; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M. - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 8, pp. 1441-1452
In this paper, we study a firm that faces demand from two sources: demand for new items and demand to replace failed items under warranty. We model this setting as a multiperiod single-product inventory problem where the demands for new items in different periods are independent and the demands...