作者：Goyal, Vineet; Levi, Retsef; Segev, Danny
作者单位：Columbia University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Haifa
摘要：Assortment planning of substitutable products is a major operational issue that arises in many industries such as retailing, airlines, and consumer electronics. We consider a single-period joint assortment and inventory planning problem under dynamic substitution with stochastic demands, and provide complexity and algorithmic results as well as insightful structural characterizations of near-optimal solutions for important variants of the problem. First, we show that the assortment planning pr...
作者：Correa, Jose; Montoya, Ricardo; Thraves, Charles
作者单位：Universidad de Chile; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Companies in diverse industries must decide the pricing policy of their inventories over time. This decision becomes particularly complex when customers are forward looking and may defer a purchase in the hope of future discounts and promotions. With such uncertainty, many customers may end up not buying or buying at a significantly lower price, reducing the firm's profitability. Recent studies show that a way to mitigate this negative effect caused by strategic consumers is to use a posted or...
