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Authors
Jay D. Schwartz; Daniel E. Rivera

Identifier
10.3182/20060329-3-AU-2901.00037

Index Terms
control-relevant identification,supply chain management,demand modeling,model reduction

Abstract
The development of control-oriented decision policies for inventory management in supply chains has received considerable interest in recent years, and demand modeling to supply forecasts for these policies is an important component of an effective solution to this problem. Drawing from the problem of control-relevant identification, we present an approach for demand modeling based on data that relies on a control-relevant prefilter to tailor the emphasis of the fit to the intended purpose of the model, which is to provide forecast signals to a tactical inventory management policy based on Model Predictive Control. Integrating the demand modeling and inventory control problems offers the opportunity to obtain reduced-order models that exhibit superior performance, with potentially lower user effort relative to traditional "open-loop" methods. A systematic approach to generating these prefilters is presented and the benefits resulting from their use are demonstrated on a representative production/inventory system case study.

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