Safety Stock Optimization under Lead Time Ambiguity

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how ambiguity faced by the risk-neutral manager affects the firm’s optimal level of safety stock.
Design/methodology/approach: This study adopts the traditional model of Arrow et al. (1951) and employ a manager who has multiple prior beliefs about the probability distribution of the lead time.
Findings: This study finds that facing lead time ambiguity, the manager becomes more conservative when choosing the optimal stock level to hold and the amount of safety stock.
Research limitations/implications: The future research would consider a risk-averse manager who could be compensated or punished as a result of stock management. Then the future research would examine the interactive effects of the manager’s risk aversion and lead time ambiguity on the optimal safety stock level.
Originality/value: This would be the first study that investigates the effects of ambiguity on the level of safety stock.

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