Strategic safety-stock placement in supply chains with capacity constraints

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 445-460

  Graves, Stephen C ^a   Schoenmeyr, Tor ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Guaranteed service; Multiechelon inventory system; Safety stock optimization

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; SUPPLY CHAINS; TOPOLOGY;

CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING ALGORITHM; GUARANTEED SERVICE; MULTIECHELON INVENTORY SYSTEM; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SAFETY STOCK; SAFETY STOCK PLACEMENT; SINGLE STAGE SYSTEM;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84978055799     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.2016.0577     Document Type: Article

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