This article discusses the impact of inventory inaccuracy on service-level quality in (Q,R) continuous review, lost-sales inventory models. A simulation model is built to study the behaviour of this kind of model exposed to an inaccuracy in inventory records as well as demand variability. We...

This article focus on the behavior of a (Q,R) continuous-review lost-sales inventory model exposed to an inventory record inaccuracy (IRI). An unusual phenomenon has been observed which runs counter to certain empirical practices in the SMEs based on the principle that safety stock is only...

Producers and retailers often limit their partnership to the simple implementation of a set of tools (advanced logistic techniques), our purpose was to understand the reasons that govern such choices, but neglecting the essence of the ECR, which is based on active cooperation between suppliers...

Partant du constat que producteurs et distributeurs limitaient souvent leur partenariat à la seule mise en place d'un ensemble d'outils, nous avons voulu comprendre les raisons de ces choix, négligeant ainsi l'essence même de l'ECR fondé sur la coopération active entre fournisseurs et...