Exact analysis of continuous review (R, Q) policies in two-echelon inventory systems with compound Poisson demand

摘要

We consider a two-level inventory system with one central warehouse and N retailers. All installations apply different continuous review installation stock (R, Q) policies. The retailers face independent compound Poisson demand processes. Transportation times are constant. We present a method for exact evaluation of control policies that provides the complete probability distributions of the retailer inventory levels. [References: 20]