The Effect of Lead Times on Safety Stocks - Use of the standard safety factor approach to setting safety stocks, by definition, relies on measures of demand, lead time, and service. This article specifically examines one of those factors, the lead time parameters, and investigates the effects of average lead time and the standard deviation of lead time on safety stock levels. Decision rules are ...
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1999
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Authors: | Evers, Philip T. |
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Production and inventory management journal : journal of the American Production and Inventory Control Society, Inc. - Washington, DC : Soc., ISSN 0897-8336, ZDB-ID 10542929. - Vol. 40.1999, 2, p. 6-10
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