Özen, Ulaş; Erkip, Nesim; Slikker, Marco - In: European Journal of Operational Research 218 (2012) 2, pp. 416-425
This study considers a supply chain that consists of n retailers, each of them facing a newsvendor problem, and a supplier. Groups of retailers might increase their expected joint profit by joint ordering and inventory centralization. However, we assume that the retailers impose some level of...