We study capacity decisions in a service environment with seasonal arrival rates and strategic customers. Due to seasonality, the firm uses a postponement strategy where compensation is given to the peak-time customers who cannot be served in the peak time and agree to delay service. We extend...

For serial multi-echelon systems subject to production capacity limits at every stage, we consider a class of modified echelon base stock (MEBS) policies. To evaluate information requirements of such systems, we consider two separate inventory management mechanisms operated in a decentralized...