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Online Inventory Replenishment and Fleet Routing Decisions under Real-Time Information

Giesen, Ricardo - 2007

rapid response to meet anticipated demand, avoid shortfalls while minimizing transportation and inventory carrying costs … transportation service.The advantages of coordinating inventory replenishment with vehicle routing decisions have long been … inventory replenishment, retailer sequencing and transportation cost.A major motivation for the online inventory routing problem …

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Essays on Strategic Behavior and Dynamic Oligopoly Competition

Steinmetz, Alexander - 2009

This thesis deals with three selected dimensions of strategic behavior, namely investment in R&D, mergers and acquisitions, and inventory decisions in dynamic oligopolies.The question the first essay addresses is how the market structure evolves due to innovative activities when firms' level of...

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Das aktuelle Stichwort : Bestandsmanagement

Schmid, Simone - 2005

Das Thema Bestandsmanagement ist bereits seit Mitte der 80er Jahre bekannt. Es betrifft alle warenwirtschaftlichen …

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Pooled versus Reserved Inventory Policies in a Two-echelon Supply Chain

Ling, Xiaoli - 2005

We consider a two-echelon supply chain with two retailers and one supplier. The retailers order from the supplier who makes all the decisions and bears all the inventory risk. Throughout this dissertation, we consider two different inventory systems: areserved inventory system and a pooled...

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Dual sourcing : with arbitrary stochastic demand and stochastic lead times

Schimpel, Ulrich - 2010

Companies with high-performing supply chains enjoy essential competitive ad- vantages. However, supply chain management faces an environment of rising risk that endangers these competitive advantages. One of the reasons is to outsource parts of their business. This bears the risk of...

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Asset and Inventory Management in the Hotel Industry using RFID technology: An Experimental Study with Economic Analysis

Aluri, Ajay; Munnangi, Samuel S - 2011

The ability to provide a cost-effective solution to improve hotel organizations efficiency through inventory management has made RFID technology one of today’s most potential deployment technologies. Hotel organizations are invariably competing in assuring the service quality and are facing...

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Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks

Musalem, Andres - 2010

W e develop a structural demand model that endogenously captures the effect of out-of-stocks on customer choice by simulating a time-varying set of available alternatives. Our estimation method uses store-level data on sales and partial information on product availability. Our model allows for...

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Assortment Planning with Inventory Considerations in Supply Chains

XIE, LEI - 2010

The dissertation addresses optimization problems related to the management of product variety with inventory considerations. The objective is to provide insights and tools to help companies determine the optimal level of product variety they should produce/stock and maximize revenues by...

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Essays in inventory decisions under uncertainty

Manikas, Andrew Steven - 2008

Uncertainty is a norm in business decisions. In this research, we focus on the inventory decisions for companies with uncertain customer demands. We first investigate forward buying strategies for single stage inventory decisions. The situation is common in commodity industry where prices often...

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Essays on robust optimization, integrated inventory and pricing, and reference price effect

Zhang, Yuhan - 2010

This dissertation consists of two distinct lines of research e orts. Chapter 2 proposes a general methodology to seek robust solution to multi-stage stochastic optimization problems. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 all deal with models that arise from inventory management and dynamic pricing. Chapter 2...

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