Inventory management under highly uncertain demand

Guillermo Gallego*, Kaan Katircioglu, Bala Ramachandran

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Abstract

We show that base-stock levels first increase and then decrease as the standard deviation increases for a variety of non-negative random variables with a given mean and provide a distribution-free upper bound for optimal base-stock levels that grows linearly with the standard deviation and then remains constant.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)281-289
Number of pages9
JournalOperations Research Letters
Volume35
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Base-stock policy
  • Inventory management
  • Risk management

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