Approximation Algorithms for the Stochastic Lot-Sizing Problem with Order Lead Times

We develop new algorithmic approaches to compute provably near-optimal policies for multiperiod stochastic lot-sizing inventory models with positive lead times, general demand distributions, and dynamic forecast updates. The policies that are developed have worst-case performance guarantees of 3 and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Levi, Retsef, Shi, Cong
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87771
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1994-4875