In this paper, we revisit the problem of demand propagation in a multi-stage supply chainin which the retailer observes ARMA demand. In contrast to previous work, we show how eachplayer constructs the order based upon its best linear forecast of leadtime demand given itsavailable information. In...

We consider a two-tier inventory management system with one retailer and one supplier. The retailer serves a demand driven by a stationary moving average process (of possibly infinite order) and places periodic inventory replenishment orders to the supplier. In this setting, we study the value...

It is common for firms to forecast stationary demand using simple exponential smoothing due to the ease of computation and understanding of the methodology. In this paper we show that the use of this methodology can be extremely costly in the context of inventory in a two-stage supply chain when...

We consider a two-tier inventory management system with one retailer and one supplier. Theretailer serves a demand driven by a stationary moving average process (of possibly in nite order) and places periodic inventory replenishment orders to the supplier. In this setting, we study the interplay...