| Article ID: | iaor200381 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 2 |
| End Page Number: | 4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2002 |
| Journal: | Manufacturing & Service Operations Management |
| Authors: | Shang Kevin H. |
| Keywords: | newsboy problem |
This is an extended abstract of a paper that was a finalist in the Manufacturing and Service Operating Management Society's 2001 Student Paper Competition. A heuristic for the optimal echelon base-stock levels is developed, which enables the effects of system parameters on the optimal cost and policies to be studied analytically.