Article ID: | iaor20021568 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 506 |
End Page Number: | 517 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2001 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Flynn James, Chung Chia-Shin, Stalinski Piotr |
Keywords: | newsboy problem |
This article addresses the inventory placement problem in a serial supply chain facing a stochastic demand for a single planning period. All customer demand is served from stage 1, where the product is stored in its final form. If the demand exceeds the supply at stage 1, then stage 1 is resupplied from stocks held at the upstream stages 2 through