Article ID: | iaor199971 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 219 |
End Page Number: | 233 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1998 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Gallego Guillermo |
Keywords: | heuristics |
To clarify the impact of demand variability on single item stochastic inventory systems with setup costs, we subsume the distributional information of the lead time demand into its mean and variance and solve the resulting problem against the worst possible distribution in this class. For (