Abstract
Abstract This article shows that a formula commonly used for establishing safety stocks can lead to erroneous results, particularly when the magnitude of forecast errors over a replenishment lead time is large in comparison with the replenishment quantity. A correct procedure involving only slightly more computational effort is developed. Numerical results are provided for the case of normally distributed forecast errors.
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