Strategic Safety-Stock Placement in Supply Chains with Capacity Constraints

We generalize the guaranteed-service (GS) model for safety-stock placement in supply chains to include capacity constraints. We first examine the guaranteed-service model for a capacitated single-stage system with bounded demand. We characterize the optimal inventory policy, which depends on the ent...

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Main Authors: Graves, Stephen C (Contributor), Schoenmeyr, Tor Ivar (Contributor)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2017-08-31T18:38:58Z.
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