Weibull vs. normal distribution of demand to determine the safety stock level when using the continuous-review (S, s) model without backlogs

Riccardo Manzini, Riccardo Accorsi and Emilio Ferrari (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Mauro Gamberi (Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padua, Italy), Valentina Giovannini (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy), Hoang Pham (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA), Alessandro Persona (Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padua, Italy), Alberto Regattieri (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)