We consider forecasting in base stock inventory systems with commitments concerning the expected short-term fill rate. From the managerial perspective, the short-term fill rate is an important indicator to measure the customer service level as it can be monitored on a regular basis and is the...

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) contracts are anchored on a fill rate at which the vendor is expected to meet the end-customer demands. Violations of this contracted fill rate due to excess and insufficient inventory are both penalized, often in a linear, but asymmetric manner. To minimize these...

We revisit the computational framework based on the M-estimation principle in the context of inventory forecasting in periodic review order-up-to inventory systems calibrated with a beta service level constraint. In particular, we discuss the identification condition for the estimation of base...

In this paper, we discuss and compare empirically various ways of computing multistep quantile forecasts of demand, with a special emphasis on the use of the quantile regression methodology. Such forecasts constitute a basis for production planning and inventory management in logistic systems...