@conference{Disney2015, author = {S.M. Disney and A. Maltz and X. Wang and Warburton}, title = {The safety stock and inventory cost paradox in a stochastic lead time setting}, booktitle = {26th Production and Operations Management Society Annual Conference}, year = {2015}, pages = {10 pages}, address = {Washington, USA}, month = {May 8th–11th}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276144728_The_safety_stock_and_inventory_cost_paradox_in_a_stochastic_lead_time_setting}, abstract = {We study a stochastic lead-time problem motivated by real world global shipping data. Replenishment quantities are generated by the Order-Up-To policy which aims to achieve a strategic availability target. We show that unlike the constant lead-time case, minimum safety stocks do not always lead to minimum costs under stochastic lead-times.} }