Evaluation of base-stock policies in multiechelon inventory systems with compound-poisson demands

Author(s):  
Paul Zipkin
2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 1048-1063 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim (Junmin) Shi ◽  
Michael N. Katehakis ◽  
Benjamin Melamed ◽  
Yusen Xia

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Federgruen ◽  
Y.-S. Zheng

We consider an inventory system with compound Poisson demands replenished by discrete production of units on a single-server facility. This facility may start a vacation at any production completion epoch; at the completion of a vacation the inventory level is inspected to decide whether or not to resume production. Unit production and vacation times are independent and identically distributed with general distributions. Under an (s, S) policy, production is terminated when the inventory level reaches a critical level S, and production is resumed when the inventory level, upon completion of a vacation, is at or below a prespecified value s. In this paper we prove that an (s, S) policy is optimal among all possible policies. We also derive a highly efficient algorithm for the determination and evaluation of an optimal (s, S) policy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 209 ◽  
pp. 172-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaaben Kouki ◽  
M. Zied Babai ◽  
Zied Jemai ◽  
Stefan Minner

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