An Inventory System with Two Supply Modes and Lévy Demand
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| author | Pérez, José Luis Yamazaki, Kazutoshi Zhang, Qingyuan |
| author_facet | Pérez, José Luis Yamazaki, Kazutoshi Zhang, Qingyuan |
| contents | This study considers a continuous-review inventory model for a single item with two replenishment modes. Replenishments may occur continuously at any time with a higher unit cost, or at discrete times governed by Poisson arrivals with a lower cost. From a practical standpoint, the model represents an inventory system with random deal offerings. Demand is modeled by a spectrally positive Lévy process (i.e., a Lévy process with only positive jumps), which greatly generalizes existing studies. Replenishment quantities are continuous and backorders are allowed, while lead times, perishability, and lost sales are excluded. Using fluctuation theory for spectrally one-sided Lévy processes, the optimality of a hybrid barrier policy incorporating both kinds of replenishments is established, and a semi-explicit expression for the associated value function is computed. Numerical analysis is provided to support the optimality result. |
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| spellingShingle | An Inventory System with Two Supply Modes and Lévy Demand Pérez, José Luis Yamazaki, Kazutoshi Zhang, Qingyuan Optimization and Control This study considers a continuous-review inventory model for a single item with two replenishment modes. Replenishments may occur continuously at any time with a higher unit cost, or at discrete times governed by Poisson arrivals with a lower cost. From a practical standpoint, the model represents an inventory system with random deal offerings. Demand is modeled by a spectrally positive Lévy process (i.e., a Lévy process with only positive jumps), which greatly generalizes existing studies. Replenishment quantities are continuous and backorders are allowed, while lead times, perishability, and lost sales are excluded. Using fluctuation theory for spectrally one-sided Lévy processes, the optimality of a hybrid barrier policy incorporating both kinds of replenishments is established, and a semi-explicit expression for the associated value function is computed. Numerical analysis is provided to support the optimality result. |
| title | An Inventory System with Two Supply Modes and Lévy Demand |
| topic | Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26039 |