, and slow) and demand forecast updates. At the beginning of each period, the inventory level and demand information are …

acquisition, and forwards the orders to the supplier. The retailer usually has better customer demand information, and may send an … over-estimated demand forecast to maximize her own interest, which may result in overstock for the supplier. On the other …-penalty contracts that can provide greater certainty of demand as well as greater certainty of supply. We focus our study in the …

proposed method outperforms the Wagner-Whitin algorithm and the Silver-Meal heuristic, under several demand patterns, within a … knowledge about future demand as the ending inventory valuation method. Our results indicate that the superior performance … future demand is available, whereas the traditional methods do not use any information about demand beyond the short model …

We study a two-stage purchase contract with a demand forecast update. The purchase contract provides the buyer an … opportunity to adjust an initial commitment based on an updated demand forecast obtained at a later stage. An adjustment, if any … of demand distributions. We also discuss how these results can be applied to gain managerial insights that help in making …

firm over a finite horizon. We develop a novel demand model that transfers the discrete bundling decision and the … item complementarity, cost structure, inventory status, demand uncertainty, and supply responsiveness …

beginning of a selling period before demand is realized. Unsatisfied demand is lost and excess inventory has to be salvaged. The … standard approach is to assume stochastic demand to be composed of deterministic functions decreasing in price and a stochastic … error term. We present an empirical study which includes demand modelling as well as price and inventory optimization. Using …

We study a firm's optimal transshipment problem considering the impacts of setup costs for transshipment and demand … distribution shapes. We assume that the demand follows a three-point distribution, which changes from a degenerate distribution, to … a unimodal distribution, and to a bimodal distribution as the demand shape parameter increases. We find that as the …