Volatile prices constitute a challenge for both commodity-processing and commodity-trading firms. This thesis investigates the implications of price uncertainty on the optimal operating policies in multi-period procurement and inventory control. A central contribution to the existing literature that addresses the full information problem is the focus on the implications of price model uncertainty, i.e., incomplete information about the underlying stochastic price process. Based on advances in stochastic and data-driven optimization, this thesis presents mathematical models for practical decision support and tests them on real data.
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Volatile prices constitute a challenge for both commodity-processing and commodity-trading firms. This thesis investigates the implications of price uncertainty on the optimal operating policies in multi-period procurement and inventory control. A central contribution to the existing literature that addresses the full information problem is the focus on the implications of price model uncertainty, i.e., incomplete information about the underlying stochastic price process. Based on advances in st...
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