The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of retailers and assigning it to an intermediary … incentive problems associated with retailers' inventory control and thereby improve the intertemporal allocation of inventory …. Adding an intermediary as a new link in a supply chain is also shown to reduce total inventory, to make shipments from the …

paper attempts to develop the retailer’s inventory model with the effect of order cancelations during advance sales period … which is accounted from the buying time rather than the start period of inventory sales. This accounts for significant … derived in mathematical theorems are implemented in numerical examples and sensitivity analyses on several inventory …