Commonality and safety stocks

摘要: Abstract Introducing or increasing commonality in product structures is advocated frequently. However, introducing gives rise to two questions: “Is it advantageous (in terms of service level) keep common items at stock?” and “How should stocknorms be determined for divergent systems?” It will shown that the cases stationary demand, no lot-sizing unlimited capacity, main deterioration level due retaining a depot. The impact imbalance between inventories on appear negligible. This observation lead rule determine systems which as simple classical one-stockpoint case.