We study inventory management for a blood center that periodically collects whole blood and processes it into multiple blood products such as red blood cells and platelets. The blood center may also be able to collect a single blood product by apheresis. With limited lifetimes, blood products...

This paper is concerned with a periodic-review inventory system with three consecutive delivery modes (fast, medium, and slow) and demand forecast updates. At the beginning of each period, the inventory level and demand information are updated and decisions on how much to order using each of the...

We consider the problem of a firm seeking to use personalized pricing to sell an exogenously given stock of a product over a finite selling horizon to different consumer types. We assume that the type of an arriving consumer can be observed but the demand function associated with each type is...

We study a joint assortment and inventory optimization problem faced by an online retailer who needs to decide on both the assortment along with the inventories of a set of N substitutable products before the start of the selling season to maximize the expected profit. The problem raises both...