Background: Analysis of (s-1, s) and Order-Up-To Policies -- Background Concepts: An Introduction to the (s-1, s) Policy under Poisson and Compound Poisson Demand -- An Exact Model for a Depot-Base Two Echelon Inventory and Repair System -- Tactical Planning Models for Managing Recoverable Items...

We consider optimal inventory replenishment policies for capacitated 2-echelon serial inventory systems, where the capacity of upstream echelon can be the bottleneck. We show that the optimal replenishment decisions in each period can be made one echelon at a time by introducing a procedure that...

Emerging technologies such as drone delivery services enable retailers to cost-effectively offer unprecedented delivery speed and adaptable delivery lead times using dedicated aerial vehicles for individual orders. A natural and important question arises: What is the impact of a drone delivery...