Slide1,TheNewsvendorModel报童模型Slide2,“Toomuch”and“toolittle”costsCo=overagecostThecostoforderingonemoreunitthanwhatyouwouldhaveorderedhadyouknowndemand
Inotherwords,supposeyouhadleftoverinventory(i
,youoverordered)
Coistheincreaseinprofityouwouldhaveenjoyedhadyouorderedonefewerunit
Cu=underagecostThecostoforderingonefewerunitthanwhatyouwouldhaveorderedhadyouknowndemand
Inotherwords,supposeyouhadlostsales(i
,youunderordered)
Cuistheincreaseinprofityouwouldhaveenjoyedhadyouorderedonemoreunit
Slide3,BalancingtheriskandbenefitoforderingaunitOrderingonemoreunitincreasesthechanceofoverage…ExpectedlossontheQthunit=CoxF(Q)F(Q)=Distributionfunctionofdemand=Prob{DemandTheratioCu/(Co+Cu)iscalledthecriticalratio
(临界比或关键比例)Hence,tomaximizeprofit,chooseQsuchthatwedon’thavelostsales(i