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Customer-Order Information, Leadtimes, and Inventories

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Hariharan, R; Zipkin, P
Published in: Management Science
October 1995
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We have an inventory to manage. The scenario is standard in all respects save one. Instead of arriving unannounced, customers provide advance warning of their demands. How should we use this information, and what is its effect on system performance? The answers turn out to be strikingly simple. There are very simple policies which perform effectively, in some cases optimally. Also such “demand leadtimes” improve performance, in precisely the same way that replenishment leadtimes degrade it.

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Paul H. Zipkin
Author Paul H. Zipkin Fuqua School of Business
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Published In

Management Science

DOI

10.1287/mnsc.41.10.1599

EISSN

1526-5501

ISSN

0025-1909

Publication Date

October 1995

Volume

41

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1599 / 1607

Publisher

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Related Subject Headings

  • Operations Research
  • 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
  • 08 Information and Computing Sciences
 

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Hariharan, R., & Zipkin, P. (1995). Customer-Order Information, Leadtimes, and Inventories. Management Science, 41(10), 1599–1607. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.41.10.1599
Hariharan, Rema, and Paul Zipkin. “Customer-Order Information, Leadtimes, and Inventories.” Management Science 41, no. 10 (October 1995): 1599–1607. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.41.10.1599.
Hariharan R, Zipkin P. Customer-Order Information, Leadtimes, and Inventories. Management Science. 1995 Oct;41(10):1599–607.
Hariharan, Rema, and Paul Zipkin. “Customer-Order Information, Leadtimes, and Inventories.” Management Science, vol. 41, no. 10, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Oct. 1995, pp. 1599–607. Crossref, doi:10.1287/mnsc.41.10.1599.
Hariharan R, Zipkin P. Customer-Order Information, Leadtimes, and Inventories. Management Science. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS); 1995 Oct;41(10):1599–1607.

Published In

Management Science

DOI

10.1287/mnsc.41.10.1599

EISSN

1526-5501

ISSN

0025-1909

Publication Date

October 1995

Volume

41

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1599 / 1607

Publisher

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Related Subject Headings

  • Operations Research
  • 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
  • 08 Information and Computing Sciences