Two Looks at the Spinner Experiment are presented. (1) “‘Obvious’ Abstractions: The Spinner Experiment” by Armann Ingolfsson, and (2) “Another Take on the Spinner Experiment” by David Zalkind

Inventory systems where leadtimes are stochastic and independent, so that orders are not restricted to arrive in the same sequence in which they were placed, can arise if the vendor with whom orders are placed is unreliable in processing them or if orders for the same item are placed with...