Auto-delivery is a subscription model widely employed in supply chains, whereby a supplier delivers products to a buyer (or multiple buyers) according to the buyer's choice of a constant shipping quantity to be delivered at prescheduled dates. The buyer enjoys a discount for the auto-delivery...

In the literature on supply chain management (SCM), the multi-echelon stochastic inventory models with known demand distributions have played a fundamental role for developing firms’ collaborative strategies, including the optimal policy to maximize efficiency of the centralized supply chain...