Business environments change over time. They are cyclic, show seasonality or just evolve over time. This is certainly true for customer demand. As a result, stationary demand distributions are crude approximations of true customer behavior at best. Yet, most classical stochastic inventory models...

I INTRODUCTION -- II DISCOUNTED COST MODELS -- Discounted Cost Models with Backorders -- Discount Cost Models with Polynomially Growing Surplus Cost -- Discounted Cost Models with Lost Sales -- III AVERAGE COST MODELS -- Average Cost Models with Backorders -- Average Cost Models with...