This paper takes a utility-based approach to the single-period and single-item newsvendor model. Unlike most models in the literature the newsvendor is not necessarily risk-neutral and chooses the order quantity that maximizes the expected utility of the cash flow at the end of the period. We...

In this study we present a planning methodology for a firm whose objective is to match the random supply of annual premium fruits and vegetables from a number of contracted farms and the random demand from the retailers during the planning period. The supply uncertainty is due to the uncertainty...