Article ID: | iaor20121533 |
Volume: | 136 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 37 |
End Page Number: | 44 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Glock Christoph H |
Keywords: | demand, stochastic processes, supply & supply chains, combinatorial optimization |
This paper studies alternative methods for reducing lead time and their impact on the safety stock and the expected total costs of a (