A Note on Initial Fill Rate.

Abstract

A common measure of customer service is initial fill rate, the percent of demand satisfied without delay from stock on hand. An exact expression for initial fill rate when demand is Compound Poisson has previously been developed. This note presents an approximation which is simple to program and relatively quick to run. Its accuracy is distribution dependent. For Negative Binomial distribution of demand, its accuracy is evaluated and found to be good. A common alternative approach to calculate initial fill is shown to work very badly for one class of items. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA080952

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  • Alan J. Kaplan

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  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Army Training
  • Binomials
  • Customer Services
  • Discrete Distribution
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Inventory
  • Inventory Analysis
  • Inventory Control
  • Lead Time
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Management Engineering
  • Systems Analysis

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  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Regression Analysis.