IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijores/v6y2009i1p141-153.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A contest among distributors over who is a better newsvendor

Author

Listed:
  • Oshry Azriel
  • Yigal Gerchak

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the ex-post evaluation and rewarding of vendors who manage inventories of items they sell at different retailers, for their relative performance in forecasting demand. The specific scenario that motivated us has to do with a wholesaler who deploys distributors, each of whom manages the inventories of products at different stores (VMI), which have a revenue-sharing arrangement with the dairy. A distributor visits each of his stores periodically, removes the expired items and stocks the shelf with quantities of his choice. A good distributor in that sense is the one having few overages and few underages.

Suggested Citation

  • Oshry Azriel & Yigal Gerchak, 2009. "A contest among distributors over who is a better newsvendor," International Journal of Operational Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(1), pages 141-153.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijores:v:6:y:2009:i:1:p:141-153
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=26248
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijores:v:6:y:2009:i:1:p:141-153. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=170 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.