We analyze a price-setting news-vendor problem with an additive – multiplicative demand. We show that the uni-modality of the news-vendor profit function holds when the underlying random term has an increasing failure rate and the demand functions satisfy certain concavity conditions....

In the Online-to-Offline (O2O) ecommerce model, one challenge facing the online business is to predict customers' future purchases towards each product or subcategory of products, and consequently, coordinate the large amount of offline businesses involved. The main obstacle in doing that...

We study a firm's optimal transshipment problem considering the impacts of setup costs for transshipment and demand distribution shapes. We assume that the demand follows a three-point distribution, which changes from a degenerate distribution, to a unimodal distribution, and to a bimodal...