Due to the more complex structure of the omnichannel supply chain, the variation and influencing factors of its bullwhip effect have aroused increasing scholarly attention.In this paper, we study omni-channel supply chains that include both online and offline channels and the demand for goods in...

Almost every supplier faces uncertain and time-varying demand. E-commerce and online shopping have given suppliers unprecedented access to data on customers' behavior, which sheds light on demand uncertainty. The main purpose of this research project is to provide an analytic tool for...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how ambiguity faced by the risk-neutral manager affects the firm’s optimal level of safety stock. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopts the traditional model of Arrow et al. (1951) and employ a manager who has multiple prior beliefs...

Financial asset price movement impacts product demand and thus influences operational decisions of a firm. We develop and solve a general model that integrates financial risk hedging into a price-setting newsvendor. The optimal hedging strategy is found analytically, which leads to an explicit...

In this paper, we study a two-echelon distribution system in which multiple products are jointly replenished at each stocking location and the inventory of each product at each location is controlled by an (s, S) policy. The transportation capacity in volume of products for each joint...

Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es Verfahren zu entwickeln, welche Lösungen zur Re-duzierung des Bestandes bei den obsoleten Artikeln mit unregelmäßigem oder keinem Bedarf anbieten werden. Hierfür erarbeitete der Autor zwei Algorithmen, welche Berechnung der Logistikkosten beinhalten. Die...