Yan, Xi Steven; Robb, David J.; Silver, Edward A. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 117 (2009) 2, pp. 330-337
Motivated by a problem facing a large retailer, we consider the impact of pack size on the performance of a periodic review inventory system in the presence of spatial (i.e., between retailers) correlation of demand--which we model using an equicorrelated multivariate Poisson distribution....