One of the primary challenges in supply chain management is matching demand with supply. Having too much supply leads to high inventory related costs, while insufficient supply reduces sales. This challenge has increased over the last few decades, mainly as a result of increasing product variety...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, 2009. "While all work in this dissertation is original, Chapters 2 and 3 are joint work with Professors Nils Rudi and Harry Groenevelt respectively, and Chapter 4 is solo work"--Acknowledgments.