1 Introduction -- I Foundations of Stochastic Inventory Control -- 2 Basic Inventory Management -- 3 Stochastic Inventory Control -- II Essential Stochastic Processes -- 4 Markov Chains -- 5 Numerical Solution of Markov Chains -- 6 Comparing Stochastic Processes -- III Stochastic Inventory...

Summary In pursuing their plans economic agents regularly have to adjust their pacing of orders, production, and deliveries in unanticipated ways. Information constraints turn many of these adjustments into myopic reactions to accelerations/decelerations observed in the activity level of...