W consider a two-echelon inventory system with a capacitated centralized production facility and several distribution centers (DCs). Both production and transportation times are stochastic with general distributions. Demand arrives at each DC according to an independent Poisson process and is backlogged if the DC is out of stock. We allow different holding and backlog costs at the different DCs...

ABSTRACT Students of public policy have spent considerable effort setting out the types instruments or tools available to policymakers in different stages process. A nascent strand this important work concerns agend-asetting phase, where scholars aim understand – procedural and substantive that government uses shape issues it has address. There is however limited engagement between scholarship ...