A technique for manufacturers and retailers that experience high variability in demand for their products to buffer the overall burden of having to deploy inventory for each products is called
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Risk Pooling: A statistical concept that suggests that demand variability is reduced if one can aggregate demand, for example, across locations, across products or even across time.
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