Article ID: | iaor20001357 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 59 |
Issue: | 1/3 |
Start Page Number: | 387 |
End Page Number: | 393 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Hill Roger M. |
This paper considers replenishment policies for the continuous review inventory model with Poisson demand, a fixed lead time on replenishment and lost sales during a stockout. There is a time-dependent stockholding cost and a cost per unit of sale lost but there is no (or negligible) cost associated with placing a replenishment order. The standard policy is to specify a maximum stock level,