Platt, David E.; Robinson, Lawrence W.; Freund, Robert B. - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 7, pp. 951-965
The fill rate (the proportion of demand that is satisfied from stock) is a viable alternative in inventory models to the hard-to-quantify penalty cost. However, a number of difficulties have impeded its implementation, among them that the existing cycle-based approximate solutions do not reflect...