A causal decoupling approach to efficient planning for logistics problems with stateful stochastic demand

Diptanil Chaudhuri,Dylan A. Shell,Diptanil Chaudhuri,Dylan A. Shell

Future conceptions of agile, just-in-time fabrication, lean and “smart” manufacturing, and a host of allied processes that exploit advanced automation, depend in part on realizing improvements in logistics planning. The present paper hypothesizes that the key to improving flexibility will be the inclusion of sophisticated, time-correlated stochastic models of demand—whether that be demand by end-u...