Capturing the Risk-Pooling Effect Through Demand Reshape
提出一种名为“需求重塑”的新方法，通过引导顾客更换产品来利用风险汇集效应，从而减少安全库存、降低成本并提高利润，并在多种场景下验证了其有效性。
The risk-pooling effect has been documented to benefit inventory systems by reducing the need for safety stock and consequently lowering costs such as inventory holding and shortage penalty. In this paper, we propose a new approach, called “demand reshape,” to take advantage of the risk-pooling effect. It is demonstrated that a company can improve its profit by encouraging some of its customers, who intended to purchase one product to switch to another. The effectiveness of this approach is evaluated in various scenarios and found to be very promising.