New results on the newsvendor model and the multi-period inventory model with backordering
Authors
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Ganesh
Janakiraman
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Seung Jae
Park
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Sridhar
Seshadri
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Qi
Wu
Published
Operations Research Letters,
4
ed., vol.
41,
July (3rd Quarter/Summer)
2013
Abstract
We analyze the newsvendor model and the multi-period inventory model,
and provide some new results. For the newsvendor model, the best case
newsvendor cost over all demand distributions with a given demand mean
and variance is zero. In addition, under symmetric demand distributions, the
newsvendor's costs remain the same when the holding and shortage costs are
switched. For the multi-period inventory model with stochastic lead times,
a dilation ordering of lead times implies an ordering of optimal costs.
