We consider a supply chain consisting of a single supplier and a single retailer with stochastic customer demand, which is operated over an infinite horizon. We propose a delay-in-payment contract to coordinate the supply chain. With this contract, the supplier allows the retailer to pay partial...

We consider a single-distributor multi-retailer inventory system in six operating scenarios for a finite horizon. Five scenarios are in decentralized control and the other one is in centralized control. Approximate dynamic programming (ADP) procedures are developed to obtain system performances...

Because inventory systems are managed or heavily influenced by decision makers, understanding human behaviors in inventory management has become an important research topic. Based on newsvendor decisions, in the literature, it has been argued that a few methods (e.g., ex-post inventory error,...

Prospect theory shows that human behavior in decision making can often be characterized by an S-shaped utility function. In this paper, we consider a periodic review inventory system with an exponential-type S-shaped utility function. The objective is to maximize the total expected utility over...

Based on the newsvendor setting, many behavioral models are proposed to predict biases of decision makers in inventory management. Recently, Nagarajan and Shechter claimed that prospect theory cannot explain the consistent empirical findings (Management Science, 2014, P.1057-1062). However, it...