Estimating service level impacts from changes in cycle count, buffer stock, or corrective action
研究库存管理者如何通过增加缓冲库存、提高盘点次数或加强纠正措施来减少缺货风险，并提供了量化估计方法以帮助选择成本有效的补救方案。
Abstract Inventory managers, tasked with providing adequate levels of material support, need to be able to gain insights, in a computationally easy manner, to the magnitude of improvements in protection levels against stockouts that can be gleaned from the three mechanisms available to them—more buffer stock, more physical inventories, or more corrective action to eliminate or reduce the causes for the errors arising in the first place. Armed with quantitative conservative estimates of the types of improvements available from any of these three mechanisms or combinations of the mechanisms, and the relative cost of each, the manager is is a better position to select a cost‐effective, remedial course of action.