关键词: 季节性产品, Drop-shipping, 订单履行

Abstract: This paper studies a retailer selling seasonal product who has two stores in two independent regions, and also accept on-line orders through Drop-shipping, to expand sales. The initial inventory is determined, and the revenue from fulfilling the online order is less than that from the in-store customers, so when the online demand arrives, the retailer has to decide whether to fulfill the online demand, or to keep the product for the future in-store customer for higher profit? If the retailer is to accept the online order, which store should be assigned to fulfill the order? To answer the above two questions, this paper uses a dynamic programming model to compute the future expect profit, and gives a way of decision from the point of view of the expect revenue of the physical stores. In addition, this paper studies the decision under two different cases that the two physical stores are of equal status and one of the stores is identified as the preferred supplier, respectively.

Key words: seasonal products, Drop-shipping, order-fulfillment