Determining supplier and optimum order of the quantity is an issue of great importance in logistics management for many companies. In this regard, it is crucial to determine the best decisions for the order quantity as well as the most suitable supplier through considering existing limitations...

We study a supply chain consisting of production-inventory systems at several locations which are coupled by a common supplier. Demand of customers arrives at each production system according to a Poisson process and is lost if the local inventory is depleted ("lost sales"). To satisfy a...

We study a production-inventory system with two customer classes with different priorities which are admitted to the system following a flexible admission control scheme. The inventory management is according to a base stock policy and arriving demand which finds the inventory depleted is lost...

Platelets are critical blood products. The management of platelet inventory is particularly challenging due to its perishable nature with a short shelf-life. Motivated by a platelet inventory management problem at a two-location hospital system, we study how the wastage of platelets, and more...

We analyze a periodic review stochastic inventory model with T periods and I items. At the beginning of each period, the inventory position of each item can be adjusted by placing an order or by salvaging some of the inventory. There is a limited capacity for the total inventory held at the end...

Auto-delivery is a subscription model widely employed in supply chains, whereby a supplier delivers products to a buyer (or multiple buyers) according to the buyer's choice of a constant shipping quantity to be delivered at prescheduled dates. The buyer enjoys a discount for the auto-delivery...

Revealing inventory scarcity messages to customers to trigger scarcity effect is an important and widely adopted way to promote sales in online platforms. Under such circumstances, the demand is affected by both price and scarcity messages. In this article, we study the joint dynamic pricing and...