We consider a firm (e.g., retailer) selling a single nonperishable product over a finite-period planning horizon. Demand in each period is stochastic and price-dependent, and unsatisfied demands are backlogged. At the beginning of each period, the firm determines its selling price and inventory...

We consider a joint pricing and inventory control problem in which the customer's response to selling price and the demand distribution are not known a priori. Unsatisfied demand is lost and unobserved, and the only available information for decision-making is the observed sales data (a.k.a....

We study the fundamental model in joint pricing and inventory replenishment control under the learning-while-doing framework, with T consecutive review periods and the firm not knowing the demand curve a priori. At the beginning of each period, the retailer makes both a price decision and an...