Customer waiting-time distributions under base-stock policies in single-facility multi-item production systems

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 533-548

  Federgruen, Awi ^a   Katalan, Ziv ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COSTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

CUSTOMER WAITING TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; PERIODIC SEQUENCE; STOCHASTIC ECONOMIC LOT SCHEDULING SYSTEMS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0030174166     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199606)43:4<533::AID-NAV6>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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