| 书目名称 | Inventory Management with Alternative Delivery Times |
| 编辑 | Xiaoying Liang,Lijun Ma,Houmin Yan |
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| 概述 | Provides a framework for the study of inventory models in which customers have heterogeneous price and delivery-time requirements and derive the optimal inventory management policy for firms to respon |
| 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Operations Management |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .This book develops a modeling framework to analyze the problem of inventory management with alternative delivery times. The general context considered here is that a seller replenishes its inventory in fixed intervals and, between replenishments, allocates the limited inventory to satisfy customers who are both price and delivery-time sensitive. On the demand side, customers have heterogeneous delivery-time requirements and choose either spot or late delivery. This theoretical modeling captures the essence of real-world business practices such as the delivery time market segmentation strategy adopted by automobile dealerships in China and many other similar examples. The book focuses on the seller’s optimal inventory replenishment and demand fulfillment policies, and our results provide managerial insights into the merits of flexible delivery-time options. Similar applications such as the group-buying mechanism are also examined. The main mathematical tool used in theoretical analysis is dynamic programming. This book is written for students, researchers, and practitioners in the areas of operations management and industrial engineering who are interested in understanding the rati |
| 出版日期 | Book 2017 |
| 关键词 | Alternative Delivery Options; Delivery-time Options; Dynamic Pricing; Inventory Management; Inventory Ra |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48635-2 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-48633-8 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-48635-2Series ISSN 2365-8320 Series E-ISSN 2365-8339 |
| issn_series | 2365-8320 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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