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Evaluating long-term service performance under short-term forecast updates

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  • Alain Bensoussan
  • Qi Feng
  • Sirong Luo
  • Suresh P. Sethi

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Managing product availability in a cost-effective way has always been a major challenge faced by inventory managers. We study the problem of a firm selling a perishable product with short-term demand patterns and a long-term service target using the newsvendor framework. The newsvendor determines his long-term order at the first stage, and revises the order according to a short-term forecast update at the second stage. He also evaluates a long-term service target for his overall performance on product availability across all possible forecast updates. We characterise his optimal inventory policy that minimises the expected inventory cost while meeting the long-term service target. Both in-stock rate and fill rate targets are examined.

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  • Alain Bensoussan & Qi Feng & Sirong Luo & Suresh P. Sethi, 2016. "Evaluating long-term service performance under short-term forecast updates," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(17), pages 5236-5249, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tprsxx:v:54:y:2016:i:17:p:5236-5249
    DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2016.1165357
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