Evaluation of (R,Q)-policies for two-level inventory systems with generally distributed customer inter-arrival times

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 401-411

  Forsberg, Rolf ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RETAIL STORES; WAREHOUSES;

CUSTOMER INTERARRIVAL TIMES; ERLANG DISTRIBUTIONS; POISSON MODEL;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0031164077     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(96)00173-7     Document Type: Article

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