McGavin, Edward J.; Schwarz, Leroy B.; Ward, James E. - In: Management Science 39 (1993) 9, pp. 1092-1107
For a system of N-identical-retailers we construct a model for determining warehouse inventory-allocation policies which minimize system lost sales per retailer between system replenishments. An allocation policy is specified by: (a) the number of withdrawals from warehouse stock; (b) the...