Erratic demands have traditionally shown complexity in inventory management and forecasting. Several organisations, especially in multi-product manufacturing systems with intermittent demand high level of variability and uncertainty, assume suitable estimators are put in place to forecast demand. This forces them to pay attention to controlling the inventory of a system. The forecasted demand i...

This paper is concerned with the coordination of inventory control in divergent multiechelon inventory systems under periodic review and decentralized control. All the installations track echelon inventories. Under decentralized control the installations will decide upon replenishment policies that minimize their individual inventory costs. In general these policies do not coincide with the opt...