Rudi, Nils; Kapur, Sandeep; Pyke, David F. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 12, pp. 1668-1680
In situations where a seller has surplus stock and another seller is stocked out, it may be desirable to transfer surplus stock from the former to the latter. We examine how the possibility of such transshipments between two independent locations affects the optimal inventory orders at each...