Note on The Backroom Effect in Retail Operations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Atan, Zumbul; Erkip, Nesim
• 署名单位: Eindhoven University of Technology; Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University
• 刊物名称: PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1059-1478
• DOI: 10.1111/poms.12357
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1833-1834
• 关键词: Retail operations; backroom; (r; q) policy

摘要

Eroglu et al. (2013) study a retailer with limited shelf capacity and a backroom. They study a continuous review (r, q) ordering policy with a known order quantity, q. Assuming that backorders can be satisfied from the backroom inventory (if available), they find the expression for the optimal reorder level, r. Our work builds on Eroglu et al. (2013). We correct an erroneous derivation of the expected overflow term, as well as derive an exact expression for the expected cost function, and hence optimal reorder level, instead of the approximate one used by Eroglu et al. (2013).