This paper examines the use of price-commitment policies in dynamic contracting in multiple-period, finite-time horizons. Two specific forms of price commitment are considered: one on the part of the retailer through a retail-fixed-markup contract and one on the part of the manufacturer through...

This paper deals with a general discrete time dynamic demand model to solve real time resource allocation and lot-sizing problems in a multimachine environment. In particular, the problem of apportioning item production to distinct manufacturing lines with different costs (production, setup and...