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ISEN 315 Spring 2011 Dr. Gary Gaukler. Service Level of the Newsvendor. What is service level? A naïve proxy: probability that demand will be less than what we stock = =. Service Level of the Newsvendor. What is wrong with this proxy definition of service level?.
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Service Level of the Newsvendor What is service level? A naïve proxy: probability that demand will be less than what we stock = =
Service Level of the Newsvendor What is wrong with this proxy definition of service level?
Service Level of the Newsvendor Instead, use expected fill rate as service level measure:
Demand Uncertainty How do we come up with our random variable of demand? Recall naïve method:
Demand Uncertainty and Forecasting Using the standard deviation of forecast error: