We consider a joint pricing and inventory control problem in which the customer's response to selling price and the demand distribution are not known a priori. Unsatisfied demand is lost and unobserved, and the only available information for decision-making is the observed sales data (a.k.a....

We develop the first nonparametric learning algorithm for periodic-review perishable inventory systems. In contrast to the classical perishable inventory literature, we assume that the firm does not know the demand distribution a priori and makes replenishment decision in each period based only...