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On Base-Stock Level Inventory Control

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  • D. P. Gaver

    (Westinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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Mathematical models are used to discuss the following inventory situation customer demands on the warehouse stock of an item fluctuate independently and randomly during successive discrete time periods (e.g., weeks), demands that cannot be satisfied from stock on hand are “lost,” e.g., are satisfied elsewhere. There is a one-period lag in warehouse replenishments, and a base-stock-level policy determines the sizes of warehouse replenishment orders. Under these conditions available stock at the beginning of a period is a Markov chain, of Morse [Morse, P. M. 1959. Solutions of a class of discrete-time inventory problems. Opns Res. 7 67--78 (in particular pp. 76--78).]. This chain is discussed, and its probabilities are used to evaluate stock-out and inventory carrying costs associated with the end of a period. The above costs are also evaluated for the easily analyzed case in which disappointed demands backorder. A numerical example indicates that optimum base-stock-levels determined on the backordering assumption may be nearly identical with those determined assuming impatience.

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  • D. P. Gaver, 1959. "On Base-Stock Level Inventory Control," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 7(6), pages 689-703, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:7:y:1959:i:6:p:689-703
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.7.6.689
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    1. Brian Downs & Richard Metters & John Semple, 2001. "Managing Inventory with Multiple Products, Lags in Delivery, Resource Constraints, and Lost Sales: A Mathematical Programming Approach," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 47(3), pages 464-479, March.
    2. Bijvank, Marco & Vis, Iris F.A., 2011. "Lost-sales inventory theory: A review," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 215(1), pages 1-13, November.
    3. David A. Goldberg & Dmitriy A. Katz-Rogozhnikov & Yingdong Lu & Mayank Sharma & Mark S. Squillante, 2016. "Asymptotic Optimality of Constant-Order Policies for Lost Sales Inventory Models with Large Lead Times," Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 41(3), pages 898-913, August.

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