Effects of Backorder Release Policies on Distribution Effectiveness and Customer Wait.

摘要

The US Army Development and Readiness Command (DARCOM) depot system went under the Area Oriented Depot (AOD) concept in 1975. With the advent of AOD came the idea of not releasing low priority backorders at out-of-stock depots when stock arrives from an outside source at one of the depots on the theory that a shipment might already be under way to the other depot(s). This report determines when it is advantageous to hold stock and derives a simple method to determine how long to hold stock before releasing backorders to the customers of the out-of-stock depots. (Author)