Centralized and competitive inventory models with demand substitution
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Netessine, S; Rudi, N
署名单位：
University of Pennsylvania; University of Rochester
刊物名称：
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
ISSN/ISSBN：
0030-364X
DOI：
10.1287/opre.51.2.329.12788
发表日期：
2003
页码：
329-335
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摘要：
A standard problem in operations literature is optimal stocking of substitutable products. We consider a consumer-driven substitution problem with an arbitrary number of products under both centralized inventory management and competition. Substitution is modeled by letting the unsatisfied demand for a product flow to other products in deterministic proportions. We obtain analytically tractable solutions that facilitate comparisons between centralized and competitive inventory management under substitution. For the centralized problem we show that, when demand is multivariate normal, the total profit is decreasing in demand correlation.