This paper addresses a multi-stage stochastic integer programming formulation of the uncapacitated lot-sizing problem under
uncertainty. We show that the classical (ℓ,
S) inequalities for the deterministic lot-sizing polytope are also valid for the stochastic lot-sizing polytope. We then extend
the (ℓ,
S) inequalities to a general class of valid inequalities, called the

inequalities, and we establish necessary and sufficient conditions which guarantee that the

inequalities are facet-defining. A separation heuristic for

inequalities is developed and incorporated into a branch-and-cut algorithm. A computational study verifies the usefulness
of the

inequalities as cuts.
Keywords Stochastic Lot-Sizing - Multi-stage Stochastic Integer Programming - Polyhedral Study - Branch-and-Cut
This research has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Award number DMII-0121495.