Safety stock planning under causal demand forecasting

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 637-645

  Beutel, Anna Lena ^a   Minner, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Inventory; Linear programming; Ordinary least squares

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER DEMANDS; DATA SAMPLE; DEMAND DISTRIBUTION; DEMAND FORECASTING; DEMAND MODELS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; EXOGENOUS VARIABLES; FORECAST ERRORS; HISTORICAL DATA; INVENTORY; INVENTORY LEVELS; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES REGRESSIONS; PRICE CHANGES; PROBABILITY CONSTRAINTS; REGRESSION MODEL; RETAIL INVENTORY; SAFETY STOCK; SAFETY STOCK LEVELS; SALES PRICES; SERVICE LEVEL CONSTRAINT; SIMPLIFYING METHOD; STANDARD ASSUMPTIONS; TARGET SERVICES; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; FORECASTING; INVENTORY CONTROL; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALES;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 84866734712     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.04.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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