A Distribution-Free Newsvendor Rule for Crate Hire in Staged Office Restacks
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities sets crate hire for a staged office restack as a newsvendor problem and replays three order rules across 187 stages of 41 archived restacks. Scarf's distribution-free rule costs 1.09 times the hindsight optimum against 1.38 for the per-desk allowance, but crates carried forward sealed from stage to stage account for 37% of all crate-weeks hired.
| Authors | Hedvig Anyanwu , Bram Ntuli , Ronja Oyelaran |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.f8arwc |
| Pages | 1 |
| Cited by | 1 output |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_f8arwc,
author = {Hedvig Anyanwu and Bram Ntuli and Ronja Oyelaran},
title = {The Crate Nobody Opens Is Still on Hire: A Distribution-Free Newsvendor Rule for Crate Hire in Staged Office Restacks},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.f8arwc},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-how-many-moving-f8arwc/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}