Keyword: inventory

Found 1303 papers in total
An econometric analysis of inventory turnover performance in retail services
2005,
Inventory turnover varies widely across retailers and over time. This variation...
A periodic inventory routing problem at a supermarket chain
2004,
Albert Heijn, BV, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands, faces a vehicle routing and...
A comparison study on retailer-managed and vendor-managed inventory policies in the retail supply chain
2006,
Vendor-managed inventory policy (VMIP) is a supply-chain initiative where the supplier...
Supply chain coordination with revenue-sharing contracts: strengths and limitations
2005,
Under a revenue-sharing contract, a retailer pays a supplier a wholesale price for...
Inventory sharing and rationing in decentralized dealer networks
2005,
An increasing number of manufacturers have started to pursue a strategy that promotes...
Information sharing in a supply chain under ARMA demand
2005,
In this paper we study how the time-series structure of the demand process affects the...
On the stability of supply chains
2004,
This paper examines the stability of decentralized, multistage supply chains under...
The co-printing problem: a packing problem with a color constraint
2004,
The co-printing problem is a new variant of the bin-packing problem. It finds its...
Dynamic pricing in the presence of inventory considerations: research overview, current practices, and future directions
2003,
The benefits of dynamic pricing methods have long been known in industries, such as...
Scheduling logistic activities to improve hospital supply systems
2007,
This paper presents an innovative approach for improving hospital logistics by...
A principal–agent model for product specification and production
2005,
This paper develops and analyzes a principal–agent model for product...
Optimal auctioning and ordering in an infinite horizon inventory-pricing system
2004,
We consider a joint inventory-pricing problem in which buyers act strategically and...
Capacity allocation and inventory policy in a distribution system
2006,
We consider a single-period distribution system with one supplier and two retailers....
Modeling the benefits of sharing future demand information
2004,
We analyze how sharing of future demand information (FDI) can help companies to lower...
Production control in the face of storable raw material, random supply, and an outside market
2004,
We study a periodic-review production/inventory control problem where both the supply...
Price and delivery logistics competition in a supply chain
2003,
We consider a supply chain in which two suppliers compete for supply to a customer....
Supply chain management with guaranteed delivery
2003,
We consider a two-stage supply chain under centralized control. The downstream...
Coordinating contracts for decentralized supply chains with retailer promotional effort
2004,
In this paper, a risk-neutral manufacturer sells a single product to a risk-neutral...
The allocation of inventory risk in a supply chain: push, pull, and advance-purchase discount contracts
2004,
While every firm in a supply chain bears supply risk (the cost of insufficient...
Overbooking with substitutable inventory classes
2004,
This paper considers an overbooking problem with multiple reservation and inventory...
Simulation study of discrete event systems using fast approximation method of single run and optimization method of multiple run
2006,
This paper deals with a discrete simulation optimization method for designing a...
A price-directed approach to stochastic inventory/routing
2004,
We consider a new approach to stochastic inventory/routing that approximates the...
Stochastic transportation–inventory network design problem
2005,
We study the stochastic transportation–inventory network design problem...
Optimal solutions in the multi-location inventory system with transshipments
2007,
We consider a single-period multi-location inventory system where inventory choices at...
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