Robinson, Lawrence W.; Bradley, James R.; Thomas, L. Joseph - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 3 (2001) 3, pp. 175-188
Order crossover occurs whenever replenishment orders do not arrive in the sequence in which they were placed. This … paper argues that order crossover is becoming more prevalent and analyzes the dangers of ignoring it. We present an exact … distribution, which are different when order crossover is possible. The lead-time demand distribution can have much higher …