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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 281-289 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Operations Research Letters |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - May 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Base-stock policy
- Inventory management
- Risk management