Distribution centers (DCs) replenish stores with size-specific ship-packs. The ship-packs may be eaches (i.e. individual units), inners (a group of individual units), or cases (a group of inners). The problem that we consider is to determine the ship-pack to use for each stock-keeping-unit. The...

We investigate how to use the guaranteed-service (GS) framework for multi-echelon supply chains when different parts of the supply chain are controlled by two different parties. We find that this framework is naturally well suited for decentralized decision-making, and we propose a specific...