to manage the risks they face; techniques include phasing and joint ventures. The associated areas of investment …

perishable and non-perishable inventory. A very general class of demand functions is studied in this paper. We derive the optimal … sales are unobservable, with perishable inventory the optimal stocking factor is always at least as large as the one given … by the single-period model; whereas, if inventory is non-perishable, this result holds only under a strong condition …

We investigate the situation where a customer experiencing an inventory stockout at a retailer potentially leaves the … firm's market. In classical inventory theory, a unit stockout penalty cost has been used as a surrogate to mimic the … new consumers to the committed market and the setting of inventory levels. We establish conditions under which the firm …

levels and inventory targets. The purpose of this research is to examine factors that influence supply chain agility and … identify a cost-effective plan for achieving it. The first phase addresses the problem of identifying target inventory and … customer service levels based on regression analysis of historical data and financial analysis of inventory holding costs and …