Strategic safety stocks in supply chains with evolving forecasts

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 657-673

  Schoenmeyr, Tor ^a   Graves, Stephen C ^b  

^a OptiSolar Inc   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolving forecast; Guaranteed service; MRP; Safety stock; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

BASE STOCK POLICY; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DEMAND FORECAST; EVOLVING FORECAST; FORECAST EVOLUTION; GUARANTEED SERVICE; MRP; SAFETY STOCK; SUPPLY CHAIN STRUCTURES;

COMPETITION; FORECASTING; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 70349847252     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1080.0245     Document Type: Article

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