A Simple Inventory Replenishment Policy for Demand with Uncertainty
研究指出经济订货量因对预测误差不敏感而优于其他方法，但本文试图证明预测误差大小与批量技术表现无统计关联，并针对确定性需求提出一种比EOQ更稳定的启发式规则。
Research indicates that the economic order quantity is preferred to alternative techniques because it is less nervous to forecast errors. This paper attempts to establish that no statistical relationship exists between the size of forecast error and the performance of some lot-size techniques. A heuristic rule is also presented for deterministic demand. The rule does well on the examples considered and is shown to be more stable than E.O.Q.