Armony, Mor; Plambeck, Erica L. - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 10, pp. 1505-1518
Motivated by a $2.2 billion inventory write-off by Cisco Systems, we investigate how duplicate orders can lead a … duplicate orders. Furthermore, the customer cancels all of his outstanding orders after a random period of time. Assuming that … the manufacturer is unaware of duplicate orders, we prove that she will overestimate both the demand rate and the …