A firm sells a product whose demand over the next couple years will be stable (so the order up-to model is used to manage its inventory). When the demand uncertainty is small (for example, the weekly demand has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 5), the main benefit of reducing the lead time is
to reduce the expected on-hand inventory at the end of every period.
to enable us to use the reactive capacity.
to reduce the pipeline stock.
none of the above.