Note: A Reply to “New Product Diffusion Decisions Under Supply Constraints”
针对产能约束下的产品扩散问题，推导了企业优先满足当前需求而不积压库存这一策略的最优性充分条件，对运营管理研究者有参考价值。
In our prior work on product diffusions in presence of a capacity constraint, we postulated that a firm operating in such an environment should always attempt to fulfill as much of the present demand as is possible with the capacity constraint. In other words, the firm would never have demand backlogged while accumulating inventory. In this note, we derive a sufficient condition for the optimality of such fulfillment policy. This paper was accepted by Candace A. Yano, operations management.