Home Full-text access for editors Location pricing to effectively reduce inventory repositioning: the car rental industry by Kuangnen Cheng; Hui-Ping Chen International Journal of Inventory Research (IJIR), Vol. 5, No. 4, 2020 Abstract: Inventory repositioning or pooling to efficiently align demand and supply is a strategic tool widely used in the car rental industry. This technique produces optimal results when demand is negatively correlated between locations within a pool.