Efficient management of inventories is essential for both retailers and wholesalers. Two
disciplines which have extensively studied retail and wholesale (R&W) inventories are …

We consider a single-period inventory problem with random demand with both directly
observable and unobservable features that impact the demand distribution. With the recent …

Can you have prescription without prediction? Most scholars and practitioners would argue
that a good forecast drives an optimal decision, thus promoting the concept of prediction-led …

The objective of this paper is to identify antecedents of inventory agility (ie, the capability to
quickly adapt inventories to changes in demand) upon demand shocks based on the …

Small and medium size enterprises'(SME) manufacturing strategy configurations are
identified in a small developed economy with the aim to explore how SME manufacturing …

This study examines inventory dynamics on durable finished goods in an automotive supply
chain with respect to manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. We apply a regression …

We study manufacturing firms' asymmetric inventory investment in response to sales
changes. Focusing on the costs of resource adjustment and stockout that likely differ in sales …

This study explores how suppliers adjust their relation‐specific investments (RSI) in
response to the different risk‐taking incentives provided by the customer firm to its CEO …

As the time between the decision about what to produce and the moment when demand is
observed (the decision lead time) increases, the demand forecast becomes more uncertain …

This paper examines the differences in the behaviors of high (HIT) and low inventory
turnover (LIT) retailers in responding to demand shocks. We identify quantity and price …