We consider the inventory control problem of an independent supplier in a continuous review system. The supplier faces demand from a single customer who in turn faces Poisson demand and follows a continuous review (R, Q) policy. If no information about the inventory levels at the customer is...

This paper provides a new decision rule for emergency replenishments in an inventory system. The decision rule is a generalization of a previous decision rule suggested and evaluated in Axsäter (2003, 2007). An improvement step is added to this rule and this often means considerably better...