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Projected Inventory-Level Policies for Lost Sales Inventory Systems: Asymptotic Optimality in Two Regimes

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  • Willem van Jaarsveld

    (School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Netherlands)

  • Joachim Arts

    (Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Department of Economics and Management, University of Luxembourg, 1359 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg)

Abstract

We consider the canonical periodic review lost sales inventory system with positive lead times and stochastic i.i.d. demand under the average cost criterion. We introduce a new policy that places orders such that the expected inventory level at the time of arrival of an order is at a fixed level and call it the projected inventory-level policy. We prove that this policy has a cost rate superior to the equivalent system where excess demand is back-ordered instead of lost and therefore, is asymptotically optimal as the cost of losing a sale approaches infinity under mild distributional assumptions. We further show that this policy dominates the constant-order policy for any finite lead time and therefore, is asymptotically optimal as the lead time approaches infinity for the case of exponentially distributed demand per period. Numerical results show that this policy also performs superior relative to other policies. Funding: This work was supported by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [Grant 451-16-025]. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2021.0032 .

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  • Willem van Jaarsveld & Joachim Arts, 2024. "Projected Inventory-Level Policies for Lost Sales Inventory Systems: Asymptotic Optimality in Two Regimes," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 72(5), pages 1790-1805, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:72:y:2024:i:5:p:1790-1805
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.2021.0032
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