Optimal policies under the shortage probability criterion for an inventory model with unknown dependent demands

Donald L. Iglehart and Stratton C. Jaquette

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1969, vol. 16, issue 4, 485-493

Abstract: The principal innovation in this paper is the consideration of a new objective function for inventory models which we call the shortage probability criterion. Under this criterion we seek to minimize the total expected discounted cost of ordering subject to the probability that the stock level at the end of the period being less than some fixed quantity not exceed some prescribed number. For three different models we show that the minimum order policy is optimal. This result is then applied to a particular inventory model in which the demand distribution is not completely known. A Bayesian procedure is discussed for obtaining optimal policies.

Date: 1969
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