Tractable (Q, R) heuristic models for constrained service levels

Management Science

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 951-965

  Platt, David E ^a   Robinson, Lawrence W ^a   Freund, Robert B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Approximations; Inventory Production; Service Level; Stochastic Models

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTROL THEORY; COSTS; CURVE FITTING; ECONOMICS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CONSTRAINED SERVICE; ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 0031176847     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.43.7.951     Document Type: Article

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