strategies that focused on cutting costs and improving product assortment, thereby improving inventory and financial performance … off. However, the growth in profit does not appear to come from improved performance for traditional inventory measures …

a retail environment, one must take into account the interactions among inventory, dynamic pricing, and negotiation. The … outcome of the negotiation (and the final price a customer pays) depends on the inventory level, the remaining selling season … posted price and the resulting negotiation outcome as a function of inventory and time. We also show that negotiation is an …

an inventory ofessential facilities in the region was part of the foundation needed to support itsresearch efforts … survey contacts. Theessential facility inventory was found to be relatively fragile with a large numberof unreinforced …

This paper treats the problem of setting the inventory level and optimizing the buffer allocation of closed-loop flow … second part, we focus on the relationship between the CONWIP inventory level and the short-term profit. The accuracy of the …

perishable and non-perishable inventory. A very general class of demand functions is studied in this paper. We derive the optimal … sales are unobservable, with perishable inventory the optimal stocking factor is always at least as large as the one given … by the single-period model; whereas, if inventory is non-perishable, this result holds only under a strong condition …

We study inventory systems operating under an infinite-horizon, periodic-review base-stock control policy with … steady state probability of each inventory level and use this to find the optimal base-stock level in this setting. Moreover … distribution. Finally, for a two-location inventory system consisting of a single retailer supplied by a single distributor, whose …

In this essay, I will identify one theoretical source of the common antipathy towards form contracts and why it is … misguided. I contend that the hostility towards form contracts stems in important part from an implicit adoption of a promise … contracts can be seen as entirely legitimate-though some form terms may properly be subject to judicial scrutiny that would be …